June 24, 2025

The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) applauds Secretary Kennedy’s recent statement in support of improving access to home infusion services for Medicare beneficiaries. We agree with his sentiment that commonsense reforms to Medicare – like home infusion – will save taxpayer dollars while improving access to care, especially for rural and elderly patients. We stand ready to work with the Secretary and HHS to remedy the current lack of coverage for home infusion therapies.

Thank you to Representative Diana Harshbarger, a long-time champion of the Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act (H.R. 2172 / S. 1058) , for broaching the subject during a June 24 hearing of the House Energy & Commerce Committee. Rep. Harshbarger is one of several bipartisan, bi-cameral sponsors of NHIA’s legislative proposal that would both improve access to home-based IV therapies and reduce Medicare costs.

Statement from Secretary Kennedy:

“It makes no sense, it’s much more expensive for our system. It’s literally billions of dollars a year that are unnecessarily spent by forcing these patients—particularly in rural areas, elderly patients—that could easily use infusions at home and are forced to come into a hospital to use them. And it doesn’t make any sense and it’s part of the commonsense reforms we’re doing here at HHS.”