Alliance for Home Dialysis 

Home dialysis, including peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis, are alternatives to in-center, or facilities-based, dialysis treatments given to patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD).  Today, about 12.6 percent of the more than 554,000 Americans receiving dialysis do so at home.

The Alliance for Home Dialysis was launched to continue the work begun by delegates at the National Summit on Home Dialysis Policy, held March 2012 in Washington, DC.  At that landmark national forum, leaders from the patient, clinician, industry and academic communities identified a range of concerns that currently hinder, and policy opportunities that can increase, appropriate utilization of home dialysis.

Delegates to the Summit targeted three areas for policy improvements — Accessibility, Accountability and Aligning Incentives, issuing policy recommendations for improvements that garnered consensus and common interest during the forum.  The work of the Alliance will focus on these three areas, and the policy action items that leaders have identified as representing the greatest opportunity to give more patients access to home dialysis.