What are the benefits to clinics that encourage home dialysis?
There are many benefits to clinics when patients choose to do home dialysis: • Patients can get Medicare coverage from the first of the month dialysis starts, instead of having to wait until the first day of the third full month of dialysis. (Even if a patient tries and fails home dialysis training, Medicare will backdate the effective date to the first of the month dialysis starts.) • Each home dialysis staff person can support 20 or more patients, reducing the need to hire and train more staff to keep up with the growing patient population. • Having a larger percentage of home patients reduces the need to expand or build more clinics. • Offering home dialysis allows more patients to keep their jobs and their Employer Group Healthcare Plan (EGHP) coverage as their primary payer for 30 months, and as a secondary payer afterward. • Offering home dialysis allows the clinic to offer patients that desire to be in more control (often the ones staff have conflicts with) the option to learn m
