Coverage profile · AL

Home Care Market — Alabama

Researching

The official source and access method are being evaluated. No figures are published. Alabama licenses home care providers as “Home Health Agency (Medicare/Medicaid-certified; not state-licensed)”. This profile records who licenses home care in Alabama, which official records exist and where coverage stands.

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Licensing authority: Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH)(opens in a new tab)
State license term: Home Health Agency (Medicare/Medicaid-certified; not state-licensed)
Official sources: 1; Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification: Oct 5, 2026; Verified by loading the official page

Coverage status

Current status: Researching. Next: Confirm access to the official source, its fields and its update cadence, then build and test a connector. No date is promised.

Source research(completed)Oct 5, 2026
Verified by loading the official page
Connector built(in progress)In progress
Access, fields and cadence confirmed, then a connector is built for the source.
Test ingestion(not started)
Official file retrieved, stored unchanged and parsed.
Output review(not started)
Changes compared to the source by hand on a sample of records before anything is published.
Beta, then Live(not started)
Figures publish with a Beta label first. Live requires a verified source, repeatable ingestion and reviewed output.

Official sources

From HomeCareIntent's source research. Cadence is quoted as the source states it, separate from how often HomeCareIntent checks.

Registry entry

ADPH Health Care Facilities Directory (interactive)(opens in a new tab)

Researched source

Source type: Search portal (HTML)
Stated cadence: Not stated by the source
Covers: Home Health Agency (certified, CON-regulated) · Hospice

Federal CMS data covers Medicare-certified home health agencies only and is not used as non-medical home care coverage.

Licensing authority

Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH)(opens in a new tab)
Bureau of Health Provider Standards
State licensure (State Board of Health) for hospices and facilities; CMS state survey agency for Medicare/Medicaid-certified home health agencies. Official facility-descriptions page: 'HHAs are not required to be licensed by the Alabama State Board of Health but may apply for certification in Medicare and Medicaid programs.' No non-medical home care licensure.
Alabama State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA)
Certificate of Need
Certificate of Need required for home health agencies serving Medicare/Medicaid (per secondary sources). Site unreachable from our network.

Definitions: how Alabama names home care

State license term

Home Health Agency (Medicare/Medicaid-certified; not state-licensed)

Non-medical licensing

No state license for non-medical home care was found.

License types

Home Health Agency (certified, CON-regulated) (counted)Not state-licensed; listed in ADPH Health Care Facilities Directory as a certified provider type.
Hospice (not counted)State-licensed.

Notes

Alabama does not license private-pay non-medical home care (secondary sources; ADPH facility type list contains no in-home/personal care category). Medicaid waiver personal care providers (Alabama Medicaid / Dept. of Senior Services) not researched.

Terminology varies by state. HomeCareIntent uses each state's own term on its pages and maps it to a common category. Glossary

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Bordering states are shaded by coverage status.

Signal types from the official source

Not yet. Signal types are confirmed once a connector is built and tested against the official source.

About these figures

What is measured: Nothing is published for Alabama yet. Once Live: home care organizations with an active relevant license, and changes to those licenses.
Geography: Alabama, United States
Time period: Not applicable until the state is Live.
Freshness: Source publication cadence: not stated by the source. HomeCareIntent check schedule not yet set. Figures reflect the latest successful check, not the moment a change happened.
Source: ADPH Health Care Facilities Directory (interactive)(opens in a new tab)
Methodology: How we measure · Definitions
Status: Researching: Official source and access being evaluated.

What the Index will publish for Alabama

Fixed definitions, applied the same way in every state once it is Live.

Methodology

Agencies tracked: Home care organizations holding at least one active license of a type the state's own rules define as relevant. Hospice-only organizations are excluded.
New agencies (30 and 90 days): Organizations first licensed, or first detected, inside the trailing window. Shown only after HomeCareIntent has observed the whole window.
Licensing events (30 days): New licenses and locations, closures, status, administrator, licensee and address changes. Dated by the source where it publishes a date.
New agencies per month: A 12-month series. Months before HomeCareIntent's history for a state begins are marked “Not tracked,” never drawn as zero.
Top markets: Cities ranked by tracked organizations. Cities with fewer than three are not ranked.

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