Home hemodialysis in Texas,
handled by a licensed nurse.
Elik Home Dialysis provides staff-assisted home hemodialysis across the Houston and Dallas metros: a licensed dialysis nurse performs every step of every treatment in the patient's home, assisted living community, or skilled nursing facility. One nurse, one patient, every treatment. That is the standard Elik was built around.
If you have Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, or UnitedHealthcare commercial insurance, on its own or as a secondary plan alongside Medicare, you qualify. Serving Houston and Dallas.
Built around the patient, not the clinic.
In-center dialysis is designed around the clinic's needs, not the patient's. Texas regulations permit one nurse to oversee up to twelve patients at a time. The result is a care environment that is impersonal, rushed, and isolating. Patients absorb the logistical burden (transportation, rigid scheduling, shared clinical floors, waiting rooms) on top of managing a chronic illness that is already relentless.
This company was built on a different premise: that professional dialysis care belongs in the patient's home, delivered one-on-one by a licensed nurse, every single treatment. Not a different venue for the same compromises. A different standard, end to end.
The 1:1 ratio is not a feature. It is the foundation. One licensed nurse. One patient. Three times a week. Fully handled, from the moment the nurse arrives to the moment the treatment is complete and the home is reset.
"Dialysis at home, handled by a licensed nurse."
The operating principle behind every treatment Elik delivers.
Built on one kind of experience.
Elik Home Dialysis was built around a focused conviction: that hemodialysis delivered in the patient's own home, one nurse to one patient, every treatment, is the level of care that serious illness deserves. That conviction has hardened into operational discipline.
The team leading Elik Home Dialysis brings more than 80 years of combined experience in dialysis, 45 of them in staff-assisted home hemodialysis. That depth shows up in the details: how treatments are scheduled, how nurses are trained, how insurance is verified, how a patient moves from a hospital discharge bed to their own living room without a gap. The experience is not decorative. It is how the company runs.
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The mission, in one sentence.
Dialysis at home, handled by a licensed nurse.
Eight words. Every one of them matters.
Home means the treatment happens where the patient lives: their own bedroom, their own living room, their own schedule. No clinic waiting rooms. No three-times-a-week transportation. No shared floor of strangers.
Handled means a licensed dialysis nurse does every part of the treatment. The nurse brings the equipment, sets it up, runs the full session, monitors the patient, and breaks everything down at the end. The patient does not learn to operate a dialysis machine. The patient does not self-administer anything. The patient sits back.
By a licensed nurse means one nurse, one patient, every single session. Not an aide. Not a technician. Not a rising ratio when the floor gets busy. A licensed dialysis nurse, three times a week, in the home, fully responsible for the clinical care delivered that session.
No care partner required. The patient is the only person who needs to be home. A spouse does not have to be trained. A family member does not have to learn to run a machine. The nurse does all of it.
Houston and Dallas.
Elik serves commercially insured patients across the Houston metro and the Dallas metro: Dallas, Collin, and served portions of Tarrant County. Elik built its service footprint suburb by suburb, from patient locations, not from a coverage map. Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, and Pearland on the Houston side. Plano, Frisco, Richardson, and Arlington on the Dallas side. And every address in between. The nurse comes to the patient. The patient does not travel.
You keep your own kidney doctor.
You do not change nephrologists to dialyze with Elik. You keep the kidney doctor you already trust, and Elik coordinates your home treatments directly with their office. Nothing about your existing care relationship changes.
Medicare and Medicare Advantage: the straight answer
Original Medicare does not pay for staff-assisted home hemodialysis, by law. Medicare Advantage plans follow Medicare's reimbursement rules, so they do not pay for it either. Elik provides staff-assisted home hemodialysis for eligible patients with BCBS, Cigna, or UnitedHealthcare/UHC commercial coverage, including when Medicare is the primary insurance. Medicare-only, Medicare Advantage (including BCBS, Cigna, or UHC Medicare Advantage plans), Medicare supplement (Medigap) plans, and Medicaid do not pay for this service through Elik. Elik confirms your exact plan in one free, no-obligation phone call: Houston (713) 861-7500, Dallas (972) 238-7788.
Talk to our team.
One call. We confirm your coverage and tell you exactly what happens next. If you have Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, or UnitedHealthcare commercial insurance, on its own or as a secondary plan alongside Medicare, you qualify. No care partner required. No patient training. Clear answer.
Elik Home Dialysis | 1445 North Loop West, Ste 720, Houston, TX 77008 | (713) 861-7500
Elik Home Dialysis | 6320 North President George Bush Highway, Garland, TX 75044 | (972) 238-7788
Last reviewed: September 2026