Elik Home Dialysis is a staff-assisted home hemodialysis provider in the Houston and Dallas metros. A licensed dialysis nurse comes to the patient's home, assisted living, or skilled nursing facility and performs every step of hemodialysis. Patients do not operate the dialysis machine and do not need a trained care partner. 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.
Where are you right now?
Three days a week, on the clinic's schedule, not yours.
You arrange transportation. You sit in the waiting room. You dialyze in a row of chairs next to strangers. You come home exhausted, and the afternoon is gone. Then you do it again two days later. This is what in-center dialysis demands of you: a life built around the clinic, not around you.
There is another way.
Your home. Your schedule. Your nurse, one-on-one.
Most home hemodialysis programs require a trained care partner and weeks of patient training, which quietly disqualifies the people who need home treatment most: patients who live alone, seniors, anyone who cannot place their own needles, and families who cannot staff a treatment three days a week, forever. At Elik, the nurse is the care partner. Our licensed nurse sets up the machine, places the needles, runs your treatment to your nephrologist's exact prescription, monitors you one-on-one from first minute to last, breaks everything down, and documents the visit for your doctor. Your job is your own chair. How it works, step by step
No care partner required. Ever.
Other home dialysis programs require a trained family member. Elik does not. The nurse does every part of every treatment, alone, in your home.
In a Texas dialysis center, one nurse covers up to twelve patients at once (25 TAC §117.106). With Elik, one nurse covers one patient, you. Every treatment. Every visit.
Built for the patients other programs turn away.
People who live alone. Seniors staying in their own homes. Patients with vision, dexterity, or mobility limitations. Anyone unwilling or unable to self-cannulate. Residents of assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, treated without leaving the building. Patients leaving in-center dialysis, and new patients starting at home from day one. Who qualifies
Who this is not for
Two situations put staff-assisted home hemodialysis on hold: your nephrologist judges you medically unstable enough to need facility-based care for a period of time, or your residence has no workable treatment space (a chair or bed near reliable power and water, which our nurse assesses before the first treatment). The first is a temporary clinical status, not a verdict. Everyone else who wants home treatment but cannot or will not self-administer it is exactly who this service exists for.
Four steps. You only do one.
One call starts it. Everything after is on us.
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Call and check coverage
Elik confirms your exact plan in one free, no-obligation phone call.
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Nurse home assessment
A nurse visits your home to check the treatment space and confirm what equipment we bring. You do not lift a finger.
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Treatment schedule set
Pick the time that fits your life: morning, afternoon, or evening. Three sessions a week, same days each week.
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Nurse comes to your home
Every treatment, every visit. The nurse sets up, runs the full session, and packs up. You sit back.
Dialysis Center
One nurse, up to twelve patients. Texas regulation 25 TAC §117.106.
Elik Home Dialysis
One nurse, only you. Every treatment.
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.
Blue Cross Blue Shield
Elik is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield for staff-assisted home hemodialysis. Elik confirms your exact BCBS plan in one free phone call and handles every claim. You sign nothing and submit nothing.
See BCBS coverage details →Cigna
Elik is in-network with Cigna for staff-assisted home hemodialysis. Elik confirms your exact Cigna plan in one free phone call and coordinates every step of authorization. You just call us.
See Cigna coverage details →UnitedHealthcare
Elik is in-network with UnitedHealthcare for staff-assisted home hemodialysis. Elik confirms your exact UnitedHealthcare plan in one free phone call and works directly with the plan on your behalf. No calls or forms on your end.
See UnitedHealthcare coverage details →If Medicare is your primary plan and you carry a Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, or UnitedHealthcare commercial plan as secondary, you qualify. Houston (713) 861-7500 · Dallas (972) 238-7788
Discharge home without a care partner
Elik Home Dialysis sends a licensed dialysis nurse to perform hemodialysis at home, in assisted living, or in skilled nursing. No trained care partner is required. Same-day acceptance.
What Elik needs from the hospital: insurance information and medical records.
Nephrologists have access to every treatment record in Elik's dialysis EMR.
Houston (713) 861-7500 · Dallas (972) 238-7788 · Fax (713) 861-7502
Your nephrologist stays in charge
Every Elik treatment runs under your own nephrologist's orders and is performed by a licensed, certified dialysis nurse: one nurse, one patient, the entire treatment. Your doctor receives documentation after every visit and directs your care exactly as before. Behind every treatment is a team with more than 80 years of combined experience in dialysis, 45 of them in staff-assisted home hemodialysis. Elik changes where your treatment happens and whose hands perform it, never who your doctor is.
In their own words.
The people who live it every day tell the story better than we can.
“Pleasant personality, good manners, quite knowledgeable and best of all... it barely hurt at all when she put in the needles. Excellent choice. I'm very pleased.”
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Where we serve
Greater Houston, including Sugar Land, Katy, The Woodlands, Pearland, Cypress, Spring, Humble, Missouri City, Pasadena, and Baytown. Greater Dallas, including Richardson, Plano, Garland, Mesquite, Irving, Carrollton, McKinney, Frisco, DeSoto, and Grand Prairie.
Frequently asked questions
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Elik Home Dialysis provides staff-assisted home hemodialysis across the Greater Houston metro. A licensed dialysis nurse comes to the patient's home, assisted living community, or skilled nursing facility and performs every step of every treatment. Elik is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare commercial plans and confirms each patient's exact plan in one free phone call.
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Elik Home Dialysis provides staff-assisted home hemodialysis across the Greater Dallas metro, coordinated from its Garland office. A licensed dialysis nurse comes to the patient's home, assisted living community, or skilled nursing facility and performs every step of every treatment. Elik is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare commercial plans and confirms each patient's exact plan in one free phone call.
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A nurse comes to you. With Elik Home Dialysis, a licensed dialysis nurse comes to your home in the Houston or Dallas metro and performs every step of hemodialysis. Patients do not operate the dialysis machine and do not need a trained care partner. Elik is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare commercial plans.
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Yes. Elik Home Dialysis exists for patients who cannot or will not place their own needles: a licensed dialysis nurse places the needles and performs every step of the treatment at home, across the Houston and Dallas metros. Patients do not operate the dialysis machine and do not need a trained care partner. Elik is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare commercial plans.
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Yes, for Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial plans. Elik Home Dialysis is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial plans for staff-assisted home hemodialysis in the Houston and Dallas metros, whether the plan is primary or secondary to Medicare, and a licensed dialysis nurse performs every step of treatment. 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 phone call.
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Yes, for Cigna commercial plans. Elik Home Dialysis is in-network with Cigna commercial plans for staff-assisted home hemodialysis in the Houston and Dallas metros, whether the plan is primary or secondary to Medicare, and a licensed dialysis nurse performs every step of treatment. 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 phone call.
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Yes. Elik Home Dialysis is in-network with UnitedHealthcare commercial plans for staff-assisted home hemodialysis in the Houston and Dallas metros, whether the plan is primary or secondary to Medicare, and a licensed dialysis nurse performs every step of treatment. 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 phone call.
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Yes, when the nephrologist judges the patient stable for home treatment. Elik Home Dialysis accepts patients with no care partner at home, because a licensed dialysis nurse performs every step of every treatment across the Houston and Dallas metros. Send the insurance face sheet and recent records by fax to (713) 861-7502, or call Elik, and Elik gives you same-day acceptance and obtains the nephrologist's orders on admission. Elik is in-network with Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, and UnitedHealthcare commercial plans and documents every visit to the patient's nephrologist.
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Yes. Because the Elik nurse performs the whole treatment, living alone is one of the most common reasons patients choose Elik.
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No. 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. If you have Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, or UnitedHealthcare commercial insurance, on its own or as a secondary plan alongside Medicare, you qualify. Elik confirms your exact plan in one phone call.
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Call Elik. Houston (713) 861-7500, Dallas (972) 238-7788. We confirm your plan in one call, coordinate orders directly with your kidney doctor's office, and schedule your first home treatment. You make one phone call; Elik does the rest.
Check if you qualify for staff-assisted home hemodialysis
A licensed dialysis nurse performs your entire treatment at home. Elik confirms whether your commercial plan covers it in one free call.
Elik Home Dialysis is a licensed Texas dialysis provider.
Last reviewed: September 2026