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Home Care Market — Iowa

Researching: Official source and access being evaluated.
The official source and access method are being evaluated. No figures are published. Iowa licenses home care providers as “Home Health Agency”. This profile records who licenses home care in Iowa, which official records exist and where coverage stands.
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Licensing authority
Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL)(opens in a new tab)
State license term
Home Health Agency
Official sources
1
Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification
Oct 4, 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.

  1. Source research(completed)Oct 4, 2026

    Verified by loading the official page

  2. Connector built(in progress)In progress

    Access, fields and cadence confirmed, then a connector is built for the source.

  3. Test ingestion(not started)

    Official file retrieved, stored unchanged and parsed.

  4. Output review(not started)

    Changes compared to the source by hand on a sample of records before anything is published.

  5. 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

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

Licensing authority

  • Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (Iowa Medicaid)

    Enrolls Medicaid HCBS providers (e.g., consumer-directed attendant care, homemaker). Not researched on an official page.

  • Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing (DIAL)(opens in a new tab)

    Health Facilities Division

    Oversees Home Health Agencies and Hospices as CMS state survey agency (DIAL page defines HHAs by reference to 42 CFR, not a state licensure chapter). Also registers Health Care Employment Agencies (staffing) and runs the Direct Care Worker Registry.

Definitions: how Iowa names home care

State license term
Home Health Agency
Non-medical licensing
No state license for non-medical home care was found.
License types
  • Home Health Agency (Medicare-certified; listed in DIAL Health Facilities database) (counted)
  • Hospice (not counted)Entity type value 6 in the DIAL HFD search.
  • Health Care Employment Agency registration (not counted)
  • Medicaid HCBS provider enrollment (counted)Possible proxy for non-medical agencies serving Medicaid; source not identified.
Notes
Secondary sources (not official) state Iowa has no state license for non-medical home care or home health agencies. The official DIAL Health Facilities page lists no state licensure for in-home non-medical care. Treat as unlicensed pending confirmation.

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

What the Index will publish for Iowa

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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