Staff-assisted home hemodialysis
Home dialysis in Cypress
A licensed and background-checked dialysis nurse comes to your home in Cypress and performs your hemodialysis for you. You do not place your own needles. You do not run the machine. No family member has to be trained to help.
In network with Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare.
Home dialysis without the long drive into Houston
Cypress spreads across northwest Harris County along the US-290 corridor, through growing communities such as Bridgeland and Fairfield. It is a wide, spread-out area, and the established dialysis centers sit well inside Houston. For someone who needs hemodialysis several times a week, that drive adds up. Early starts on the freeway, traffic on the way back, and long hours spent away from home, week after week.
Staff-assisted home hemodialysis takes the drive out of it. Instead of you heading in toward the city, a licensed dialysis nurse comes out to your home in Cypress and does the treatment there. You stay in your own chair, in your own house. Cypress is one of the communities we serve across the Houston metro area. See our full service area.
The nurse does the treatment, not you
This is not the kind of home dialysis where you are trained to run a machine yourself. Our nurse does the whole treatment at every visit. The nurse places the needles, which is called cannulation, sets up and runs the machine, and monitors you the entire time, then cleans up before leaving.
There is no training program to finish. No family member has to become your care partner. You can read more about what staff-assisted home hemodialysis is and how it works, from your first call to your first treatment.
Insurance for home dialysis in Cypress
Commercial insurance covers staff-assisted home hemodialysis. That includes a plan you hold on your own, through an employer or the marketplace, and a commercial plan you hold as a secondary policy alongside Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan. We are in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare. If your commercial plan is a different one, call us and we check your benefits.
By law, Original Medicare does not cover staff-assisted home hemodialysis. Medicare Advantage plans do not cover it either, because they follow Medicare's payment rules. However, if you have Medicare plus a commercial secondary policy (BCBS or UnitedHealthcare), you may qualify for our service.
Read the full coverage details on our insurance page, or find plain answers to common questions on our frequently asked questions page.