Open data and API

Free downloads of 11,314 Medicare-certified home health agencies from CMS Care Compare (July 2026 release; Florida is not included until January 1, 2027), plus a static JSON API and a read-only MCP server for AI assistants. Updated October 20, 2026.

Downloads

All agencies, CSV · JSON
By state, e.g. Texas CSV / JSON (pattern /data/states/{state}.csv)
CMS source file (unmodified except that Florida rows are withheld until January 1, 2027)

Static JSON API

/api/index.json: endpoints and states
/api/states/{state}.json, e.g. /api/states/tx.json
/api/cities/{state}/{city}.json, e.g. /api/cities/tx/houston.json
/api/agencies/{first two digits of CCN}.json (agencies keyed by CCN), e.g. /api/agencies/67.json for CCN 679454
OpenAPI description

State licensing and cost data

Texas licensing data: coming soon.
California home care (Home Care Organizations, CDSS file dated May 25, 2025): CSV · California assisted living (licensed RCFEs, CDSS data updated October 2026): CSV · API /api/assisted-living/ca/{city}.json, e.g. Sacramento
Florida: coming January 1, 2027; no Florida data is published before then.
Costs: the costs page cites CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025 national, Texas and California medians (© CareScout Holdings, Inc.); we don't offer a bulk download. For other states, see CareScout's own tool.
California CDSS data: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division: home care from the CalHHS Open Data Portal; assisted living from the CDSS ArcGIS feature service, with city names from the CDSS RCFE file on the CalHHS portal; modified by HomeCareFinder (filtered to licensed facilities and reformatted), not official government data.

For AI assistants and developers

Machine-readable summaries are at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt. A public, read-only MCP server (Streamable HTTP, no sign-in) is at https://myhomecarefinder.com/mcp with tools explain_care_types, estimate_cost and find_care. The API catalog is at /.well-known/api-catalog.

License and citation

Medicare home health data is published by CMS. CMS data is a U.S. government work; you may reuse our CMS-based files freely. Texas HHSC, California CDSS and CareScout data stay under their sources' own terms (we don't relicense them); neither HomeCareFinder nor these files is endorsed by any state agency. Please cite: "HomeCareFinder, based on CMS Care Compare Home Health Care Agencies data (July 2026)."

Changelog

2026-10-20: first public release from the July 2026 CMS file.