Be stronger, healthier, more in control, and better able to keep your job when you take your treatment home!
New CMS Bundle is home-dialysis friendly!
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has just released the new rule that includes the bundled payment for ESRD. (It's 923 pages long.) Read it here.
Get started with home dialysis in three easy steps
You're thinking about home dialysis but don't know where to begin? Here are a few tips to get the ball rolling.
Topic of the month
Your kidney treatment? Your choice
How much do you value your lifestyle? Your quality of life? Your income? Kidney failure differs from most types of illness. Unlike even cancer, once your kidneys fail, treatment is life-long. Your treatment needs to be a good fit for you, so you can work, travel, do hobbies, share meals with family and friends, and stay active in life. Read more »
Home Dialysis: Your Life, Your Choice
Home Dialysis Central's DVD takes you into the lives of 6 people who talk frankly about how and why they chose PD, or daily or nocturnal home HD. See the real story of how much better life can be when you do your own treatments. Watch video clips from our DVD.
Meet Teressa, a PD patient featured in our DVD!
Meet Dr. Leslie Wong, MD, a nephrologist featured in our DVD!
Webinars
No registration required. Click on the titles to view the recordings of past webinars.
- Which way should needles go in an AV fistula?
(presented by Dr. John Agar, February 24, 2010) - Arranging your life when dialysis comes home
(presented by Dr. Linda Gromko and Jane McClure, January 27, 2010) - 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza
(presented by Bill Peckham, September 23, 2009) - Treatment Options & Informed Consent
(presented by Dr. Robert Lockridge, August 25, 2009) - Precannulation training: Tandem-hand cannulation & clinical observations
(presented by Stuart Mott, July 30, 2009) - Cushion Cannulation
(presented by Stuart Mott, April 23, 2009) - Home Dialysis Central Webinar
(presented by Dr. John Agar, March 18, 2009) - Renal bone disease
(presented by Dr. Stuart Sprague) - How Dialysis Works: Fluid and Wastes - Part 2
(presented by Dr. John Agar) - How to Live a Good Life with Kidney Failure: Advice from a 42+ Year Patient
(presented by Nancy Spaeth) - How Dialysis Works: Fluid and Wastes - Part 1
(presented by Dr. John Agar)
Doctors: take part in the quotidian registry
The use of daily (quotidian) hemodialysis is rapidly increasing as growing evidence points to significant improvements in cardiovascular, metabolic, and nutritional parameters as well as quality of life in patients treated with these regimens. Read more »
Dialysis Videos
We've compiled dialysis videos from multiple sources in one place!
TOPS Education video
This video hosted by Shad Ireland walks through the different dialysis modalities and features patients using each.
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Medicare FAQs
We've gathered together up-to-date information on Medicare, covering topics such as reimbursement for treatments, home equipment, training, travel, and more.
Patients: read more »
Professionals: read more »
Streaming videos
We now offer streaming videos!
Featured patient story
Michael Bebb
- Michael's kidneys failed in 2000 as a complication of living for more than 30 years with Type 1 diabetes. Because he had a long time to prepare for and adjust to the idea of dialysis, Michael was able to make an informed choice about his treatment. And, he chose to do his dialysis at home.
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