Staff-assisted home hemodialysis
Home dialysis in Pearland
A licensed and background-checked dialysis nurse comes to your home in Pearland 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.
Dialysis that comes to you in Pearland
Pearland sits south of Houston along the SH-288 corridor, spread across Brazoria and Harris counties. For many families here, the hardest part of dialysis is not the treatment itself. It is the trip. Getting to a dialysis center several times a week can mean a long drive along the SH-288 corridor and back, whether you live in Shadow Creek Ranch, near Silverlake, or another part of town.
Staff-assisted home hemodialysis removes that trip. Instead of traveling to a dialysis center, a licensed dialysis nurse comes to your Pearland home and performs the full treatment there. You stay in your own chair, in your own house, while the work is done for you. You can read what staff-assisted home hemodialysis is in plain language.
The nurse does the treatment, not you
This is what makes our service different from ordinary home hemodialysis. In most home programs, you or a family member are trained to run the machine and place the needles. With us, there is no training program and no care partner to recruit.
At every visit, the nurse places the needles, which is called cannulation, sets up and runs the machine, and monitors the whole treatment from start to finish. There is nothing for you to learn and nothing you have to do yourself. To see the whole process, read how it works, from your first call to your first treatment.
Insurance and coverage
Commercial insurance does cover staff-assisted home hemodialysis. That includes a commercial plan you hold on your own, through an employer or the marketplace, and a commercial plan you hold alongside Medicare 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 we name, call us and we check your benefits. The full details are on our insurance and coverage page.
Serving Pearland and the communities around it
Pearland is one of the communities we serve across the Houston metro area, on both the Brazoria and Harris county sides of town. To see the other suburbs we reach and to check your neighborhood, visit our service area page, or read plain answers to common questions on our frequently asked questions page.