Home Health Aide: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A person trained to assist public health nurses, home health nurses, and other health professionals in the bedside care of patients in their homes.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Home Health Aide records, the sole-proprietor share describes how NPI records are flagged in NPPES, not how many aides work independently or outside an agency. Because the field is self-reported and may reflect registration practices rather than day-to-day employment arrangements, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and should not be treated as a causal explanation.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• Active NPI records are administrative identifiers and may not equal unique people, jobs, or service capacity.
• The count includes records with Home Health Aide as the primary taxonomy, so providers using another primary classification may not be included.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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