A complete operational and financial profile of any of 12,251 Medicare-certified home health agencies in the United States — built from five federal data sources and delivered in minutes.
You're evaluating a home health agency — as a potential acquisition target, a referral partner, a staffing opportunity, or an opposing party in litigation. You have a name and maybe an address. That information exists in federal databases. CareIndex assembles it so you're not spending hours pulling five separate government datasets and reconciling them yourself.
Six buyer types use this report for fundamentally different workflows. Each finds something different in the same data.
| Who | The problem they bring to this report | How they use it |
|---|---|---|
| PE Analyst | Evaluating a home health agency or portfolio for acquisition. Needs quality posture, VBP adjustment, Medicare concentration, and operational efficiency before committing diligence resources. | Run the report on target agencies in the first screen. Quality score, VBP adjustment, and cost per visit flag which agencies warrant deeper review and which to pass on. |
| Healthcare Lender | Underwriting a loan secured by a home health agency. Needs evidence of operational stability and revenue quality beyond what's in the borrower's financials. | VBP Performance and Financial Profile sections validate Medicare revenue concentration, cost structure, and whether the agency is gaining or losing ground on value-based reimbursement. |
| REIT Acquisitions | Assessing the operating quality of a home health tenant or portfolio addition. Needs a third-party view of clinical and financial performance. | Agency Score and grade badge provide an immediate quality tier signal. Quality of Care and Patient Experience sections give the clinical detail behind the score. |
| Staffing Agency BD | Identifying which home health agencies in a territory are growing, stretched thin, or expanding into new service areas — signals of staffing demand. | Financial Profile shows visit volume by discipline. Service Area shows ZIP codes served and expansion. High visit volume + service area growth = immediate staffing opportunity. |
| Plaintiff Attorney | Building a negligence or quality-of-care case. Needs documented quality performance, patient experience data, and operational history. | Quality of Care and Patient Experience sections provide CMS-sourced documentation. A consistent negative VBP adjustment is an objective indicator of below-standard performance. |
| Multi-Site Operator | Benchmarking an acquired agency or evaluating a potential partner against the competitive landscape. | Agency Score state rank shows exactly where the agency sits relative to every other HHA in the state. Cost per visit benchmarks show operational efficiency against the national average. |
Seven sections assembled from federal data sources, delivered as an interactive HTML file. Every data point cited to its source — no black-box estimates, no modeled projections.
Agency name, CCN, address, ownership type, certification date, grade badge, composite score, VBP payment adjustment, quality star rating, Medicare spending ratio, and four KPI cards with national averages shown for context.
Designed for rapid triage — the grade badge and KPI cards give you the full picture before reading a single section.
CMS quality star rating, six clinical outcome metrics (improvement in ambulation, bed transfers, bathing, pain, dyspnea, hospitalization), and three hospitalization performance badges: Better / No Different / Worse Than Expected.
Hospitalization performance is the clearest single indicator of whether the agency is keeping patients out of the ER — the core value proposition of home health.
HHCAHPS summary star rating, recommend percentage, and four domain scores: Professional Care, Communication, Medication Safety, and Overall Rating.
Patient survey data reveals operational quality that clinical metrics miss. Low recommendation rates are an early warning of workforce or management problems.
Total Performance Score (TPS), VBP payment adjustment percentage, performance year, cohort, and six care point domain scores color-coded by performance tier (green ≥7pts, amber ≥4pts, red <4pts).
The VBP payment adjustment is the most consequential number in home health reimbursement. A −3% adjustment on a $10M revenue agency is $300K in annual lost revenue.
Revenue mix by payer (Medicare / Medicaid / Other) with visual bars, net revenue, cost per visit, visit counts by discipline (skilled nursing, PT, OT), total costs, and Medicare spending efficiency ratio.
HCRIS cost report data is unavailable elsewhere without building the pipeline yourself. Cost per visit versus the $139 national average tells you immediately whether the agency's cost structure is sustainable under current rates.
Composite grade (A+ through F), overall score, national average comparison, state rank expressed as a percentile, and score component breakdown bars for quality, patient experience, and VBP.
State rank gives context that national averages can't — an agency scoring 72 looks different when it's in the top 15% of its state versus the bottom third.
ZIP codes served, states covered, and disciplines offered.
For staffing agencies, expanding ZIP code coverage signals immediate hiring needs. For investors, it frames competitive density and market overlap.
Data source table with CMS dataset IDs, composite score formula and weights, known data limitations per source.
Full transparency on how every number is derived. No institution-grade product should leave you guessing how a score was calculated.
Every data point is traceable to a federal government source. CareIndex does not model, estimate, or impute data — if a metric is unavailable for a given agency, it is noted rather than filled with an estimate.
Yes. The database covers all 12,251 Medicare-certified home health agencies currently active in the CMS Provider Data Catalog. If the agency accepts Medicare, it is in the database.
CMS withholds quality star ratings from agencies with insufficient episode volume — this affects a significant portion of smaller agencies. VBP participation is also volume-dependent; 5,027 agencies are exempt. The report notes exactly which metrics are unavailable and why, so you can assess data completeness before drawing conclusions.
Quality measure data and patient survey data refresh quarterly as CMS updates the Provider Data Catalog. HCRIS cost report data is annual — the current vintage covers fiscal year 2024. The report header displays the vintage date for each data layer so you always know the age of what you're reading.
Care Compare is a consumer-facing tool designed for patients choosing a provider. It surfaces basic quality stars and a small number of summary metrics. The CareIndex report surfaces the full underlying dataset — including financial profile, VBP payment adjustment, cost per visit, and a composite score with state rank — in a format built for institutional analysis, not consumer browsing.
Yes — each report is ordered individually at $299. If you are running regular diligence workflows across multiple agencies or states, IndexIQ provides credit-based access that reduces per-report cost at volume. Contact us to discuss enterprise access.
Enter the agency name or Medicare CCN to generate your report. Not sure which agency you need? Use the Research Desk to search by name, state, or ZIP code.
Live facility-level screening, multi-state filtering, and on-demand report generation billed in credits. Built for analysts running repeat diligence workflows.
14,710 SNFs • 12,251 home health agencies • 14.5M staffing records • 50 states
