Medicare Home Health Agency Enrollments with Ownership Linkage

A source of enrollment information for all Home Health Agencies (HHAs) currently enrolled in Medicare, sourced from the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS). It includes details such as legal business name, doing business as name, organization type, and address. The data is intended to be used with a corresponding dataset to identify ownership and managerial control of the agencies.

Use Cases

• Analyze the distribution of HHA organization types across different address locations to map service provider density.
• Link legal business names with doing business as names to study branding and corporate structures within the Medicare home health sector.
• Cross-reference enrollment data with the corresponding ownership dataset to investigate relationships between organizational type and ownership interest.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).
• Covers all Home Health Agencies currently enrolled in Medicare, providing a complete census.
• Includes specific data fields like legal business name and organization type for entity analysis.

Limitations

• The dataset's completeness for historical analysis is unknown as it covers only currently enrolled agencies.
• Requires joining with a separate ownership dataset for full utility, which may complicate analysis.
• Specific data quality metrics, such as update frequency for address changes, are not provided.

Provenance

Source

United States Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Collection Method

Gathered from the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS).

Time Range

Covers current enrollments; specific temporal coverage is not provided.

Freshness

The metadata indicates a last update of 2026-02-23, suggesting planned future updates.

Geography

United States (implied by Medicare program).