About Geisinger Home Infusion Services
Expert infusion treatment, delivered to your door
If you have a condition that can't be effectively treated by oral medications, your doctor may prescribe infusion therapy. But you don't have to stay in the hospital for your infusion care.
Geisinger Home Infusion Services gives you the high-quality infusion services you need to get well, in the comfort of your home.
What is infusion therapy?
Infusion therapy is the delivery of medications into your body either through your bloodstream (intravenous or IV), under your skin (subcutaneous or intramuscular) or into the membranes surrounding your spinal cord (epidural).
You may need infusion therapy for pain management, dehydration, nutrition deficiency, infections or conditions such as immune deficiency, cancer or anemia (lower-than-normal red blood cells).
With home infusion therapy, most medications can be delivered to your house. Our team of pharmacists and case management professionals will coordinate care with your physician, home health agency or skilled nursing facility.
Our comprehensive infusion therapies include:
- Anti-infective therapy (antibiotic, antifungal, antiviral)
- Catheter care and management
- Chemotherapy
- Pain management therapy
- Steroid therapy
- Total parenteral nutrition (TPN)
- IV hydration
- Biologics
- Enteral therapy
- Immunoglobin therapy
- And more
Prefer outpatient infusions?
If you’d rather have infusion therapy in an outpatient setting, our infusion suites are a convenient, safe and cost-effective option.
Located in the Geisinger Home Infusion Services Building at 44 Woodbine Lane in Danville (just up the road from Geisinger Healthplex Woodbine), 620 Baltimore Drive in Wilkes-Barre, and 428 Windmere Drive, State College, the infusion suites are alternative care sites where you can have infusion therapies of specialty drugs in a safe, monitored environment.
The infusion suites are an ideal option if you:
- Prefer a clinical setting but need to be site-of-care compliant to meet your insurance requirements
- Have a home environment that isn’t appropriate for at-home infusion
- Don’t want to be infused at home
- Need urgent infusions or don’t want to wait for a home visit
If you need infusion therapy, call 800-245-8767, option 3. We’ll work with you, your provider and your insurance to deliver comprehensive infusion therapy services in the most appropriate and convenient location.
Frequently asked questions
Get the answers to some of our most frequently asked home infusion questions.
What is infusion therapy?
Infusion therapy is the delivery of medications into your body either through your bloodstream (intravenous or IV), under your skin (subcutaneous or intramuscular) or into the membranes surrounding your spinal cord (epidural).
Drug therapies commonly given by infusion include:
- Antibiotics
- Chemotherapy
- Pain management
- Parenteral nutrition
- Immune globulin.
Diagnoses commonly requiring infusion therapy include infections that are unresponsive to oral antibiotics, cancer and cancer-related pain, gastrointestinal diseases or disorders which prevent normal functioning of the GI system, congestive heart failure, immune disorders, growth hormone deficiencies and more.
Does Medicare cover home infusion?
Certain therapies are covered when administered using a mechanical or electronic infusion pump.
Only a select few therapies are covered and only under very specific conditions. These include antiviral therapies, some chemotherapies, some ionotropic therapies (i.e., dobutamine) and some pain management therapies.
For more information, visit What Medicare Covers on the Medicare web site.
What is the difference between my Geisinger Home Infusion Services nurse and my home health nurse?
The Geisinger Home Infusion Services nurse will contact you and/or your caregiver at the start of care. They will do the initial teaching regarding your home infusion therapy and will contact you and/or your caregiver periodically throughout the course of the prescribed therapy.
Your home health nurse visits your home to assist with your therapy needs and continues teaching you and/or your caregiver, until you are comfortable with the infusion procedures. Your home health nurse should be the first person you call with questions regarding your therapy.
Why can't I have a nurse come to my home to give me every dose of IV medication?
Why is my home health agency discharging me from services?
Why is it important to count my infusion supplies?
Do I get my wound care supplies from Geisinger Home Infusion Services?
No. Geisinger Home Infusion Services only supplies those items required for your home infusion therapy.
If a home health agency is coming into your home for services, they may provide the wound care supplies to you.
Otherwise, you will need to contact your insurance company to assist you regarding coverage through a durable medical supplier in your area.
How often will I talk to someone from Geisinger Home Infusion Services?
You will talk to Geisinger Home Infusion Services personnel at the start of care and at least weekly if you are to receive IV medications.
If you are receiving monthly growth hormone, enteral formula/supplies or catheter care supplies, you will speak to Geisinger Home Infusion Services personnel monthly. A Geisinger Home Infusion Services pharmacist, nurse and administrator are on call 24 hours a day to assist you, too.