Aging & Care · Home care
Find a licensed home care agency
Home care agencies send aides to help with bathing, meals, housework and company. Medicare doesn’t track them, so we list agencies straight from the state licensing lists that are published — today Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin. Nothing here is paid placement.
What home care is
Non-medical help at home: bathing, dressing, meals, light housework, errands and companionship. Families usually pay for it themselves.
Not the same as home health
Skilled nursing or therapy a doctor orders is home health, which Medicare can cover. Find home health agencies →
What a state license means
The state says the agency met its rules to operate. It is not a rating — states publish no quality scores or prices for home care.
What home care costs
Agencies set their own hourly rates, and states don’t publish them, so neither do we. Search a ZIP code to see what home health and personal care aides are paid in that area (from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) — agency rates are usually well above the aide’s wage. Ask each agency for its rate in writing.
How home care licensing works
Each state decides whether non-medical home care agencies need a license, a registration or nothing at all. Where a state licenses them, it checks things like background screening, training and supervision before the agency can operate. Some states license them but only show the list in a search tool or a PDF; a few don’t license them at all. The table below says which is which.
How to choose
- Check the state still lists the agency as licensed or registered — the source link on each listing goes to the state's own record.
- Call two or three agencies and ask the same questions, so you can compare answers.
- Ask for the price in writing. Rates vary a lot and we don't publish them.
- Medicare doesn't pay for home care on its own. Long-term care insurance, Medicaid waivers or VA benefits sometimes do.
Questions to ask a home care agency
- Do you run criminal background checks on every caregiver?
- What training do caregivers get, and who supervises them?
- Are caregivers your employees, and are you insured and bonded?
- Is there a minimum number of hours per visit or per week?
- What is your hourly rate, and what changes it (nights, weekends, two people)?
- What happens if our regular caregiver is sick or doesn't show up?
Independent and free
PlanScout is not paid by any agency and nothing here is paid placement. States publish no ratings for home care agencies, so we show none.
Which states we cover
| State | Coverage and why |
|---|---|
| Alabama | State doesn't license Alabama doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. |
| Alaska | State doesn't license Alaska doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Medicaid personal care agencies are certified, not licensed. |
| Arizona | State doesn't license Arizona doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. It licenses only medical home health agencies. |
| Arkansas | Licensed, list not downloadable Arkansas licenses private care agencies but doesn't publish a list we could fetch. |
| California | Licensed, list not downloadable California licenses home care organizations but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form; its open licensing data leaves them out. Search the state's Find Licensed Care tool. |
| Colorado | Listed here · 1,120 agencies CDPHE publishes its licensed health facilities as open data; we keep home care agencies it lists for personal care, homemaker or in-home support services. The state's list has no license numbers or expiration dates, so the number shown is CDPHE's facility ID. State source for Colorado (opens in a new tab) |
| Connecticut | Listed here · 1,256 agencies DCP publishes its license data, including homemaker companion agency registrations, on Connecticut's open data portal. State source for Connecticut (opens in a new tab) |
| Delaware | Listed here · 71 agencies DHCQ lists every licensed personal assistance services agency on its website, with license expiration dates. State source for Delaware (opens in a new tab) |
| District of Columbia | Licensed, list not downloadable DC licenses non-medical home support agencies and publishes them only as a short PDF directory with no license numbers or license status. |
| Florida | Listed here · 2,948 agencies AHCA's public Florida Health Finder search lists every registered homemaker and companion provider. State source for Florida (opens in a new tab) |
| Georgia | Licensed, list not downloadable Georgia licenses private home care providers but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form. Search the state's GaMap2Care tool. |
| Hawaii | Listed here · 125 agencies OHCA publishes its licensed home care agencies as a table on its website, with the islands each agency serves. State source for Hawaii (opens in a new tab) |
| Idaho | State doesn't license Idaho doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Medicaid personal care providers sign agreements with the state instead. |
| Illinois | Listed here · 542 agencies IDPH publishes its Home Services Agency directory as open data. State source for Illinois (opens in a new tab) |
| Indiana | Listed here · 3,026 agencies IDOH publishes every licensed personal services agency, with branch offices, on one web page that it reposts as licenses change. State source for Indiana (opens in a new tab) |
| Iowa | State doesn't license Iowa doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Medicaid providers enroll with Iowa Medicaid. |
| Kansas | Licensed, list not downloadable Kansas licenses non-medical home care under its home health license; its directory requires accepting terms in a browser first. |
| Kentucky | Licensed, list not downloadable Kentucky certifies personal services agencies; its spreadsheet blocks automated downloads. |
| Louisiana | Licensed, list not downloadable Louisiana licenses home and community-based services providers; its directory is paginated web pages that block automated requests. |
| Maine | Licensed, list not downloadable Maine licenses personal care agencies but doesn't publish a list we could find. |
| Maryland | Licensed, list not downloadable Maryland licenses residential service agencies, but its downloadable list mixes nursing, therapy and equipment providers with personal care, so we can't tell which are home care. |
| Massachusetts | State doesn't license Massachusetts doesn't license non-medical home care agencies yet. A 2026 law starts licensing once regulations are written (expected 2027 or later). |
| Michigan | State doesn't license Michigan doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Medicaid home help providers enroll with MDHHS. |
| Minnesota | Licensed, list not downloadable Minnesota licenses home care providers; its directory data file blocks automated downloads. |
| Mississippi | State doesn't license Mississippi doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. It licenses only home health agencies. |
| Missouri | State doesn't license Missouri doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. It licenses only home health agencies; Medicaid in-home services providers contract with the state. |
| Montana | State doesn't license Montana doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. It licenses only home health agencies. |
| Nebraska | State doesn't license Nebraska doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. It licenses only home health agencies. |
| Nevada | Licensed, list not downloadable Nevada licenses personal care agencies but publishes them only in a search tool. |
| New Hampshire | Licensed, list not downloadable New Hampshire licenses home care service providers; its published list is a PDF that blocks automated downloads. |
| New Jersey | Licensed, list not downloadable New Jersey registers health care service firms but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form. |
| New Mexico | State doesn't license New Mexico doesn't license non-medical home care agencies separately from home health agencies. |
| New York | Listed here · 1,260 agencies DOH publishes licensed home care services agencies on its open data portal. State source for New York (opens in a new tab) |
| North Carolina | Listed here · 3,265 agencies DHSR publishes its full home care license list as a spreadsheet; we keep agencies licensed for companion, sitter/respite or in-home aide services. State source for North Carolina (opens in a new tab) |
| North Dakota | State doesn't license North Dakota doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Medicaid providers enroll as qualified service providers. |
| Ohio | Licensed, list not downloadable Ohio licenses non-medical home health services but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form, and its license portal asks not to be crawled. |
| Oklahoma | Listed here · 396 agencies OSDH publishes its licensed facilities, including home care agencies and companion or sitter services, as a PDF directory. Oklahoma's home care agency license also covers agencies that mainly provide skilled nursing, so some listed here are home health agencies. The directory prints no ZIP codes, so agencies are matched by county, and it has no expiration dates. State source for Oklahoma (opens in a new tab) |
| Oregon | Listed here · 235 agencies OHA's licensing site publishes its list of licensed in-home care agencies for download. The state's list has no phone numbers. State source for Oregon (opens in a new tab) |
| Pennsylvania | Licensed, list not downloadable Pennsylvania licenses home care agencies but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form. Search the Department of Health's facility locator. |
| Rhode Island | Licensed, list not downloadable Rhode Island licenses home care providers; its licensee lists block automated downloads. |
| South Carolina | Licensed, list not downloadable South Carolina licenses in-home care providers but publishes them only in an interactive map. |
| South Dakota | State doesn't license South Dakota doesn't license non-medical home care agencies (a 2026 bill to start was vetoed). |
| Tennessee | Licensed, list not downloadable Tennessee licenses personal support services agencies but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form. |
| Texas | Listed here · 4,861 agencies HHSC publishes its directory of licensed home and community support services agencies as a spreadsheet, refreshed daily; we keep agencies licensed for personal assistance services. Many of these agencies also provide licensed home health care. State source for Texas (opens in a new tab) |
| Utah | Listed here · 76 agencies Utah publishes its licensed health care facilities, including personal care agencies, as open data. State source for Utah (opens in a new tab) |
| Vermont | State doesn't license Vermont doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Home health agencies are designated by the state. |
| Virginia | Licensed, list not downloadable Virginia licenses home care organizations but doesn't publish the list in a downloadable form. |
| Washington | Licensed, list not downloadable Washington licenses in-home services agencies, but its published list doesn't say which are home care rather than home health or hospice. |
| West Virginia | State doesn't license West Virginia doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. Unlicensed providers register only to check the abuse registry. |
| Wisconsin | Listed here · 312 agencies DHS publishes its personal care agency directory as a spreadsheet, with the counties each agency serves. Certification is mainly for Medicaid; agencies serving only private-pay clients don't need it, so this isn't every agency. State source for Wisconsin (opens in a new tab) |
| Wyoming | State doesn't license Wyoming doesn't license non-medical home care agencies. It licenses only home health agencies. |
Sources: each state’s own licensing list, linked in the table. We show agencies the state lists as licensed, registered or certified; an expired or closed license is never shown as active. PlanScout is independent and not paid by any agency. Informational only; confirm the license, services and price with the agency and the state.
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- The PlanScout team. Updated Oct 8, 2026.
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