Staff-assisted home hemodialysis
Home dialysis in The Woodlands
A licensed and background-checked dialysis nurse comes to your home in The Woodlands 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.
The treatment comes to you, not the other way around
The Woodlands sits far north in Montgomery County, up the I-45 corridor, in a large master-planned community. For many residents who need dialysis, the routine means a long southbound drive toward a dialysis center closer to Houston, several times a week, in traffic, whether you feel up to it that day or not. Over months and years, that travel wears people down.
Staff-assisted home hemodialysis removes the drive. Instead of you going to the treatment, the treatment comes to your home here in The Woodlands. A licensed dialysis nurse arrives, sets everything up, and performs your hemodialysis while you rest in your own chair. When the treatment is done, the nurse cleans up and records the visit for your care team.
The nurse does the work, not you
Most home hemodialysis programs train you, or a family member, to run the machine and place the needles yourselves. This is not that. With staff-assisted home hemodialysis, a licensed dialysis nurse does the work at every visit. The nurse places the needles, which is called cannulation, runs the machine, and monitors the whole treatment from start to finish.
There is no training program to complete. No one in your family has to become your care partner. You can read what staff-assisted home hemodialysis is and see how it works, step by step.
Insurance coverage for The Woodlands
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 The Woodlands and nearby communities
We bring staff-assisted home hemodialysis to The Woodlands and the surrounding parts of northern Montgomery County. 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.