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Home Care Market — New York

Researching: Official source and access being evaluated.
The official source and access method are being evaluated. No figures are published. New York licenses home care providers as “Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA)”. This profile records who licenses home care in New York, which official records exist and where coverage stands.
State license term
Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA)
Official sources
2
Identified by research; none configured yet
Research verification
Oct 4, 2026
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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.

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

Licensing authority

  • New York State Department of Health(opens in a new tab)

    Office of Aging and Long-Term Care - Division of Home and Community Based Services; Center for Health Care Facility Planning, Licensure, and Finance (HFIS)

    Licenses LHCSAs (Article 36), certifies CHHAs and LTHHCPs, licenses hospices (Article 40).

Definitions: how New York names home care

State license term
Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA)
Non-medical licensing
Partly. Some non-medical services are licensed or registered.
License types
  • Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA) (counted)
  • Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA) (counted)
  • Long Term Home Health Care Program (LTHHCP) (counted)
  • Hospice (not counted)
Notes
LHCSA licensure covers agencies providing personal care / home health aide services. Treatment of companion/housekeeping-only agencies was not verified on an official page in this pass.

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 New York

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

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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