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Taxonomy 253Z00000X
IN HOME SUPPORTIVE CARE46,488 ON THE REGISTER48

In Home Supportive Care Agency

46,488 active US providers register In Home Supportive Care Agency as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.5% of every provider in the registry, and the 48th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.

Taxonomy code
253Z00000X
Grouping
Agencies
Classification
In Home Supportive Care
Active providers
46,488
States covered
51 of 51

What the code means

An In Home Supportive Care Agency provides services in the patient's home with the goal of enabling the patient to remain at home. The services provided may include personal care services such as hands-on assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), e.g., eating, bathing, dressing, and bladder and bowel requirements; homemaker services and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), e.g., taking medications, shopping for groceries, laundry, housekeeping, and companionship; and/or supervision or cuing so that a person can perform tasks themselves.

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.

StateProvidersShare
Florida3,832
Ohio3,812
Texas3,530
Pennsylvania3,308
North Carolina2,825
California2,337
Michigan2,026
Georgia1,824
Indiana1,627
Missouri1,511
Virginia1,286
Tennessee1,265
Illinois1,169
South Carolina1,128
Louisiana1,066

Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.

Who registers under this code

6,959 of these are people and 39,529 are organisations, so 85% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2021, and 26,308 registered in the last five years, 57% of the current population.

That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.

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.

What else they list

Providers whose primary code is In Home Supportive Care 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.

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.