New York Licensed Home Care Agency Registration Status for 2021

Licensed Home Care Services Agencies (LHCSAs) in New York State must register annually with the Department of Health to provide services and bill. The dataset includes registration status, agency names, license numbers, and addresses for the 2021 calendar year. It is published by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated in January 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic distribution of active vs. inactive agencies using City, Zip Code, and Region columns.
• Track agency registration timelines and status changes using Submission Date, License Date, and Registration Status.
• Link agency records to other healthcare datasets using the NPI Number and License Number identifiers.

Strengths

• Includes multiple unique identifiers per agency (License Number, NPI Number) for record linkage.
• Provides a clear temporal scope for the registration data (calendar year 2021).
• Contains structured location data with columns for Address, City, Zip Code, and State.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2022-01-05 18:01:43; freshness should be verified for current analysis.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov / New York State Department of Health

Collection Method

Annual registration submissions from Licensed Home Care Services Agencies (LHCSAs).

Time Range

2021

Freshness

Data is for the 2021 calendar year; metadata was last updated in January 2022.

Geography

New York State, United States