Cost of Home Dialysis Versus Institutional Dialysis

An actual cost analysis in the summer of 1975 showed that under the most costly of circumstances possible, home dialysis is always much less costly than institutional dialysis. During the first year of dialysis, when a patient must go through the expensive part of being trained for home dialysis in the center and of having the equipment installed, home dialysis even then is between $5,000 and $10,000 less costly than center dialysis. In subsequent years, after the initial outlay, home dialysis will be between $8,000 and $13,000 less costly than center dialysis.