Coverage profile · MA

Home Care Market — Massachusetts

Planned

On the national roadmap. Source research has not started or is incomplete. Massachusetts licenses home care providers as “Home Care Agency”. This profile records who licenses home care in Massachusetts, which official records exist and where coverage stands.

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Licensing authority: Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS)
State license term: Home Care Agency
Official sources: 1; Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification: Oct 5, 2026; From search results; official page not yet loaded

Coverage status

Current status: Planned. Next: Identify the official licensing source and confirm whether the state licenses non-medical home care. No date is promised.

Source research(in progress)In progressOct 5, 2026
From search results; official page not yet loaded
Connector built(not started)
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

DPH Home Health Agency (HHA) provider information page(opens in a new tab)

Researched source

Source type: No public source found yet
Stated cadence: Not stated by the source
Covers: Home Health Agency (Medicare-certified; no state license)

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

Licensing authority

Massachusetts Department of Public Health(opens in a new tab)
Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality
Performs Medicare certification surveys of home health agencies (state survey agency). Per search-result text of this page, DPH statutes do not include licensure of home health agencies. Licenses hospices.
Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS)
Designated licensing authority for home care agencies (non-medical: bathing, dressing, meal preparation, companionship) under S.3170 'An Act to improve Massachusetts home care' (signed August 2026 per trade press), with the Executive Office of Aging & Independence and DPH. Licensure not yet in effect pending EOHHS regulations.

Definitions: how Massachusetts names home care

State license term

Home Care Agency

Non-medical licensing

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

License types

Home Care Agency (license under S.3170, pending regulations) (counted)
Home Health Agency (Medicare-certified; no state license) (counted)MassHealth participation requires Medicare certification as an HHA (per search-result text of mass.gov).
Hospice (not counted)

Notes

As of 2026-10-05 Massachusetts has no operating licensure for non-medical home care; a licensing law was enacted in 2026 but takes effect only after EOHHS regulations. Re-check in 2027 - this will likely become a new license roster (and a burst of 'new license' events) once implemented.

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 Massachusetts yet. Once Live: home care organizations with an active relevant license, and changes to those licenses.
Geography: Massachusetts, 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: DPH Home Health Agency (HHA) provider information page(opens in a new tab)
Methodology: How we measure · Definitions
Status: Planned: On the national roadmap. No source work started.

What the Index will publish for Massachusetts

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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