Staff-assisted home hemodialysis
Home dialysis in Sugar Land
A licensed and background-checked dialysis nurse comes to your home in Sugar Land 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.
Built for Sugar Land, without the drive
Sugar Land sits in Fort Bend County, southwest of Houston. If you live in a master-planned community such as First Colony, Telfair, or Riverstone, keeping a dialysis schedule usually means leaving home several times a week and heading up US-59 and I-69 toward an in-town dialysis center. That trip is long on a calm day, and rush hour on the freeway makes it longer.
Staff-assisted home hemodialysis takes the drive out of the picture. Instead of you traveling to the treatment, the treatment comes to you. A nurse arrives at your Sugar Land home, sets everything up, and stays until the visit is finished. You spend that time in your own chair, close to your family, rather than parked on I-69.
The nurse does the treatment, not you
This is what sets staff-assisted home hemodialysis apart from ordinary home dialysis. Most home programs train you, or a family member, to run the machine and place the needles. Ours does not ask that of you.
At every visit, a licensed dialysis nurse places the needles, which is called cannulation, runs the machine, monitors the whole treatment, and cleans up afterward. There is no training program to finish, and no family member has to become your care partner. You can read exactly what staff-assisted home hemodialysis is, or see how it works from your first call to your first treatment.
Coverage for Sugar Land residents
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. Our insurance page lays out coverage in full, and our frequently asked questions answer what people ask most. Sugar Land is one of many communities on our service area.