Find a Medicare-certified home health agency
Pages for 12,409 Medicare-certified home health agencies listed by CMS. For 9,168 of them, CMS publishes a star rating, quality measures or patient survey results; the others have none in the current CMS files. Home health staff come to the patient, so start with the ZIP code where the patient lives.
The list shows agencies that CMS reports served at least one patient in that ZIP code during its data collection period. It is in alphabetical order, not a ranking. Ask each agency whether it serves the address now.
Home health agencies by state
- Alabama 116
- Alaska 15
- Arizona 178
- Arkansas 91
- California 3,196
- Colorado 228
- Connecticut 72
- Delaware 22
- District of Columbia 34
- Florida 1,157
- Georgia 105
- Guam 3
- Hawaii 18
- Idaho 49
- Illinois 531
- Indiana 173
- Iowa 123
- Kansas 104
- Kentucky 88
- Louisiana 176
- Maine 19
- Maryland 51
- Massachusetts 287
- Michigan 370
- Minnesota 138
- Mississippi 42
- Missouri 118
- Montana 21
- Nebraska 61
- Nevada 227
- New Hampshire 27
- New Jersey 38
- New Mexico 70
- New York 98
- North Carolina 165
- North Dakota 20
- Northern Mariana Islands 4
- Ohio 826
- Oklahoma 211
- Oregon 49
- Pennsylvania 415
- Puerto Rico 39
- Rhode Island 22
- South Carolina 67
- South Dakota 23
- Tennessee 128
- Texas 1,831
- U.S. Virgin Islands 3
- Utah 81
- Vermont 9
- Virginia 237
- Washington 72
- West Virginia 43
- Wisconsin 87
- Wyoming 31
Counted by each agency's office address.
How to read these figures
Quality of patient care star rating. CMS sums up 7 quality measures in a rating from 1 to 5 stars, in half-star steps. CMS says it reflects how agencies' scores compare with one another and does not provide information on the absolute quality of care being provided.
Patient survey star rating. From the Home Health CAHPS survey of home health patients and caregivers, 1 to 5 stars. CMS gives it only to agencies with at least 40 completed surveys. Nationally, 79% of surveyed patients said they would definitely recommend their agency.
Quality measures. Each agency page shows CMS's measures next to the state and national figures, with CMS's footnote when a figure is missing.
What Medicare home health covers
Medicare.gov describes home health as a wide range of health care services that a patient can get at home for an illness or injury.
- The patient must need part-time or intermittent skilled services and be “homebound.”
- A doctor or other health care provider (like a nurse practitioner) must see the patient in person, confirm the need for home health care and order it, and a Medicare-certified home health agency must provide it.
- The patient pays nothing for covered home health services (Medicare.gov notes that other costs may apply). After the Part B deductible, the patient pays 20% of the Medicare-approved amount for Medicare-covered medical equipment.
- People who get their Medicare benefits through a Medicare Advantage Plan (Part C) or another Medicare health plan check with their plan for more information about their home health benefits, Medicare.gov says.
- Medicare doesn't pay for 24-hour-a-day care at home, home meal delivery, homemaker services unrelated to the care plan, or custodial or personal care when that is the only care needed.
Source: Medicare.gov, Home health services, which gives the full conditions.