Home Health Agency
94,010 active US providers register Home Health Agency as their primary taxonomy. That is 1.0% of every provider in the registry, and the 27th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 251E00000X
- Grouping
- Agencies
- Classification
- Home Health
- Active providers
- 94,010
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A public agency or private organization, or a subdivision of such an agency or organization, that is primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services and other therapeutic services, such as physical therapy, speech-language pathology services, or occupational therapy, medical social services, and home health aide services. It has policies established by a professional group associated with the agency or organization (including at least one physician and one registered nurse) to govern the services and provides for supervision of such services by a physician or a registered nurse; maintains clinical records on all patients; is licensed in accordance with State or local law or is approved by the State or local licensing agency as meeting the licensing standards, where applicable; and meets other conditions found by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to be necessary for health and safety.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11,776 | |
| Ohio | 9,806 | |
| Florida | 9,124 | |
| California | 8,266 | |
| Michigan | 4,592 | |
| Virginia | 3,698 | |
| Pennsylvania | 3,612 | |
| Georgia | 3,139 | |
| North Carolina | 3,052 | |
| Missouri | 3,030 | |
| New York | 2,917 | |
| Minnesota | 2,905 | |
| New Jersey | 2,272 | |
| Maryland | 2,235 | |
| Illinois | 2,116 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
10,295 of these are people and 83,715 are organisations, so 89% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 32,486 registered in the last five years, 35% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- HOUSTON, TX2,196
- COLUMBUS, OH1,812
- SAINT LOUIS, MO1,321
- MIAMI, FL1,134
- PHILADELPHIA, PA936
- CINCINNATI, OH873
- LAS VEGAS, NV821
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN749
- DALLAS, TX749
- GLENDALE, CA688
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Home Health Agency most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 5,626 | 6.0% |
| Nursing Care Agency | 3,075 | 3.3% |
| Respite Care | 2,507 | 2.7% |
| Personal Care Attendant | 1,447 | 1.5% |
| Non-emergency Medical Transport (VAN) | 1,348 | 1.4% |
| Home Health Aide | 1,310 | 1.4% |
| Community Based Hospice Care Agency | 1,113 | 1.2% |
| Case Management Agency | 930 | 1.0% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.