In Home Supportive Care Agency: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An In Home Supportive Care Agency provides services in the patient's home with the goal of enabling the patient to remain at home. The services provided may include personal care services such as hands-on assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), e.g., eating, bathing, dressing, and bladder and bowel requirements; homemaker services and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), e.g., taking medications, shopping for groceries, laundry, housekeeping, and companionship; and/or supervision or cuing so that a person can perform tasks themselves.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor share is the portion of active records whose NPPES record is flagged as a sole proprietorship: 6,022 records, or 15.3%. Because the flag is a self-reported NPPES field, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not establish an agency's ownership, independence, or operating model.

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.
• - An NPI record is not necessarily a distinct agency location and does not measure staffing, caseload, or service volume.
• - This view includes records using the taxonomy as their primary classification; first-enumeration year reflects NPI timing, not necessarily the date an agency began operating.
• 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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