Staff-assisted home hemodialysis
Home dialysis in Kingwood
A licensed and background-checked dialysis nurse comes to your home in Kingwood 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.
Care that reaches into the Livable Forest
Kingwood sits at the far northeast edge of the Houston area, in the wooded, master-planned neighborhoods that earned it the name the Livable Forest. It spans the line between Harris and Montgomery counties, next to Humble, with US-59 the main road in and out. For residents who need dialysis, that setting usually means a long drive down US-59 toward a center closer to in-town Houston, several times a week, whatever the weather and however you feel that day. The distance and the traffic add up quickly.
Staff-assisted home hemodialysis takes that drive off your week. The nurse, the machine, and the supplies come to your Kingwood home, so your days no longer bend around US-59 and the traffic on it. You stay among the trees and the quiet you already know while a licensed dialysis nurse carries out the full treatment, then tidies up and writes up the visit for your care team before leaving.
The nurse does the treatment, not you
In ordinary home dialysis, the patient or a family member is the one trained to place the needles and operate the equipment. Our service works the other way around. At every visit, a licensed dialysis nurse handles the needle placement, a step called cannulation, starts and watches over the machine, and stays with you until the treatment is finished.
You never have to learn the equipment, and no one in your household has to become your care partner. You rest at home while the nurse handles each step. Read more about what staff-assisted home hemodialysis is, or see how it works from your first call to your first treatment.
Insurance coverage for Kingwood
Commercial insurance does cover staff-assisted home hemodialysis. That includes commercial insurance you hold on your own, such as a plan through an employer or the marketplace. It also includes commercial insurance you hold alongside Medicare or a Medicare Advantage plan as a secondary policy. We are in network with Blue Cross Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare.
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.
If your commercial plan is not one of the two named plans, call us and we check your benefits. Read the full coverage details.
Serving Kingwood and nearby communities
We bring staff-assisted home hemodialysis to Kingwood and the surrounding neighborhoods that straddle the Harris and Montgomery county line. See every community we reach on our service area page, and read plain answers to the questions people ask most on our frequently asked questions page.