Your slot on the schedule.
Kept.Recurring dialysis, chemotherapy, infusion and physical-therapy transportation across Minneapolis and the northwest metro — a standing slot, the same driver, pickups before 6am by arrangement.

- 3 morningsa week, or whatever your rhythm is — booked once.
- Before 6amby arrangement. Standing dialysis runs leave early.
- $50/$75the same bases as any ride. A slot costs nothing extra.
The week, as the schedule holds it.
One booking draws this. The slot leaves your door at the same minute on the same days, and the empty days stay held open around it.
- Mon
- Tue5:40amyour door
- Wed
- Thu5:40amyour door
- Fri
- Sat5:40amyour door
- Sun
Booked once, then kept.
Dialysis three mornings a week is not twelve phone calls a month. It is one, and then the van simply comes.

The same driver, every time.
They learn your door, your building, and what time your chair actually starts — not just what the booking says. If it moves, one call moves the slot with it.
Early, by arrangement.
Hours are 7am–7pm daily, earlier by arrangement — standing dialysis runs leave before six. Need a 4am pickup? Ask for one.
A pickup outside 7am–7pm daily carries the late-hour 25%, the same as a weekend — printed here rather than found on an invoice. It is quoted with your real chair time in it.
Already on the schedule: dialysis at DaVita centers, chemotherapy and infusion at Park Nicollet, M Health Fairview near the university, HealthPartners specialty clinics — and physical therapy wherever yours is.
Priced like any other ride.
A standing slot is ordinary one-way fares, repeated — the figure holds all year, and holding the slot costs nothing.
Wheelchair mornings run the same arithmetic from the $75 base. Holidays add 50% to base and mileage alike, and we say so before the week, not after it.
| Base fare | $50 |
|---|---|
| 5 miles × $2.50 | $12.50 |
| Each way | $62.5 |
|---|
Three mornings a week, there and back: $75 a day, base fare charged once, is $225 a week — the same figure in December that it was in May.
Asked before this ride.
The questions we hear about it. Open a row for the rest — none of it changes when you dial.
13 answers
Do I have to book every week?No. Once.
A standing slot is booked one time and held until you change it. No weekly phone call, no re-quoting, no losing the time you count on.
Standing routesCan you make a 5:30 chair time?Yes, by arrangement.
The published window is 7am–7pm daily, earlier by arrangement — and the standing dialysis runs leave before six. If you need a 4am pickup, ask for one. A pickup outside 7am–7pm daily carries the late-hour 25%, so an early chair time is quoted with that in it.
How a dialysis week is pricedIs it the same driver every time?Yes.
The same driver takes the same run. They learn your door, your building, and your chair time — which is the point of a standing slot.
Does a standing slot cost extra?No. Ordinary rates.
Each leg is priced like any one-way: $50 ambulatory plus $2.50 a mile, or $75 wheelchair plus $3. Holding the slot costs nothing.
What if I skip a week?Tell us the day before.
Cancelling is free until an hour before pickup; inside that hour it is 10% of the fare. The slot itself stays yours either way.
Is it only dialysis?No — any standing run.
Chemotherapy, infusion, physical therapy, a weekly specialist — anything that repeats can hold a slot. Dialysis is simply the run that repeats most, three mornings a week for years at a time.
Which dialysis centers do you run to?Any of them.
The centers in Maple Grove, New Hope, Golden Valley, Plymouth, Brooklyn Center, Champlin, Coon Rapids, Blaine and Elk River are on the weekly schedule, and so is any other one in the metro. Give us the address and your chair time and the slot is built around it, not the other way round.
How dialysis rides work hereI am wiped out afterwards — will the driver help?Door through door.
You are met inside, walked to the van, and walked to your own door at the other end. After a treatment that is the part that matters, and it is the same on the four-hundredth ride as on the first.
Is this an alternative to Metro Mobility?Your time, kept.
One rider, straight to the chair, at the minute the slot says — no shared route, no window to sit inside, and no ride that fails to arrive on the morning you cannot miss. It is private pay rather than a public program, which is what buys the held time.
Where Metro Mobility fits, and where it does notCan the driver wait through a short infusion?Yes — $100 an hour.
Flat, pickup to drop-off. For a treatment short enough that a second trip out makes no sense, the van simply stays in the lot and takes you home when you are done.
How Wait & Return worksDo you work with nursing homes or group homes?Yes — facilities too.
Standing routes are set up the same way for adult day programs, group homes, assisted living and discharge planners as for a family: one call establishes the schedule, and the same driver runs it. A facility pays the published card — there is no separate facility price list.
How a facility route is set upDoes Medicare pay for dialysis rides?Not Original Medicare.
It does not cover a van to a dialysis chair — only an ambulance, and only when one is medically necessary. Some Medicare Advantage plans include a ride benefit, which is worth asking about for a run this frequent. The standing slots we run are booked and paid direct, at the printed card.
How dialysis rides get paid forCan someone ride with me?Up to 3, free.
A spouse, a daughter, an aide — up to 3 additional riders travel at no extra charge, on every ride in the standing booking, not just the first one.
If this is not quite your ride.
Same vans, same drivers, same published rates — a different shape of trip.
Tell us the days and the chair time. We’ll hold the slot.
One call sets the standing booking — the days, the pickup minute, and the fare that holds for every run after it.
Have these ready
- The pickup address, and the clinic or building you are going to.
- The date and the appointment time.
- Wheelchair or ambulatory, and whether the chair is yours.
- Whether the driver should wait, or come back for you later.