An app-based home health provider called Honor entered the Texas market Tuesday with the official opening of its first pilot sites, located inside two Wal-Mart Supercenters in Dallas-Fort Worth.

Honor uses app-based technology to link patients in need of non-medical home health services to local providers. The startup aims to reduce the administrative cost of providing home health care and allow for more competitive pay among providers. The founders have described the service as the Uber of home health.

The company launched in the San Francisco Bay area and in Los Angeles in early 2015 and announced plans to expand to D-FW earlier this year.

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In August, Honor gained $42 million in Series B funding led by Thrive Capital, a venture capital investment firm focused on internet and software products. To date the company has raised $62 million in venture capital funding, which it plans to use to expand operations.

The first pilot locations in Texas are inside Wal-Mart Supercenters on Tarrant Parkway in North Richland Hills and U.S. Highway 287 in Arlington.

Consumers can visit those sites to try out the app and receive free in-store consultations on their home care needs.

They can also schedule a more detailed in-home assessment for $39.99, which will be applied to care hours if the individual decides to move forward with using the service.

Care provided through Honor is considered to be “non-medical,” and therefore is not reimbursed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Non-medical home care often includes things like bathing, meal preparation and housekeeping.

Medicare does, however, reimburse for services such as occupational therapy, intravenous injections and rehabilitation, which are provided in the home by licensed medical professionals. Spending on those services reached $83.2 billion in the U.S. in 2014, most of which was paid by the federal health insurance provider.

There are more than 2,600 certified agencies that can offer home care to Medicare patients in Texas. To cut down on fraud, the CMS announced earlier this year that it will be testing a new payment structure in five states, including Texas.

The start date for that rollout remains undetermined. Based on a similar demo launched in Illinois in August, the CMS said additional education efforts may be needed before expansion to the other states.

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Honor said it is too early to discuss opening additional locations but said more are possible. "We are finding that many Wal-Mart families who stop in are caregivers with older adults living in the home," said Kathryn Parsons, general manager of Honor DFW.

The intent of the pilot sites is "to be a convenient stop where the local community can come learn how to help their loved ones stay healthy and safe as they age in their own homes," she said.

Honor is also seeking to hire "hundreds" to join its workforce and fill vacant sales and aide positions in Dallas, Tarrant, Denton and Collin counties. Wages are expected to be "higher than industry average," starting at about $13 an hour in North Texas for a full-time home care aide, the company told The Dallas Morning News.