# Home Health Agency Lookup — CMS Star Ratings (`m_ctim/home-health-agency-lookup`) Actor

Search U.S. home health agencies by name or state and get their official CMS quality-of-care star rating, services offered, and Medicare spending/readmission performance vs. the national rate.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/m\_ctim/home-health-agency-lookup.md
- **Developed by:** [Timothy Kelvin](https://apify.com/m_ctim) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Home Health Agency Lookup — CMS Star Ratings

Search U.S. home health agencies (in-home nursing, therapy, and aide
services) by name or state and get their official CMS quality-of-care
star rating, which services they offer, and how they compare to the
national rate on preventable readmissions and hospitalizations.

Built for families arranging post-hospital or ongoing in-home care for
a loved one, discharge planners, and care coordinators.

### Input

```json
{
  "name": "",
  "state": "CA",
  "minRating": 4,
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `name` | string (optional) | Full or partial agency name to search for. |
| `state` | string (optional) | Two-letter US state code to limit to agencies located there. |
| `minRating` | number (optional) | Only return agencies with at least this CMS quality-of-care rating (1-5 stars, half-star increments). |
| `maxResults` | number | Max agencies to return. Default `25`, max `100`. |

### Output

One record per agency:

```json
{
  "facilityId": "027001",
  "name": "PROVIDENCE AT HOME WITH COMPASSUS HH ANCHORAGE",
  "address": "4001 DALE STREET, SUITE 101",
  "city": "ANCHORAGE",
  "state": "AK",
  "zipCode": "99508",
  "phone": "9073314075",
  "ownershipType": "PROPRIETARY",
  "certificationDate": "05/17/1982",
  "servicesOffered": {
    "nursingCare": true,
    "physicalTherapy": true,
    "occupationalTherapy": true,
    "speechPathology": true,
    "medicalSocialServices": true,
    "homeHealthAide": true
  },
  "qualityOfPatientCareRating": 3.5,
  "medicareSpendingRatio": 0.94,
  "dischargeToCommunityVsNational": "Better Than National Rate",
  "preventableReadmissionsVsNational": "Same As National Rate",
  "preventableHospitalizationsVsNational": "Better Than National Rate"
}
```

`medicareSpendingRatio` is relative to the national average episode cost
(1.0 = average; below 1.0 spends less per episode than typical).

A search with no matches returns no items but is still billed once for
the search.

### How it works

Direct calls to the official [CMS Provider Data
API](https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/) (`data.cms.gov`), querying
the Home Health Care Agencies dataset — no proxy, no key, no scraping.
Public U.S. government data, refreshed quarterly by CMS.

### Pricing note

Billed per **search**, not per agency returned — one charge whether the
search returns 0 agencies or 100.

### Related products

- [Nursing Home Quality Lookup](https://github.com/timmKal01/nursing-home-quality-lookup) — the long-term/residential care equivalent
- [Hospital Quality Lookup](https://github.com/timmKal01/hospital-quality-lookup) — the acute-care hospital equivalent

# Actor input Schema

## `name` (type: `string`):

Full or partial agency name to search for. Leave blank to browse by state instead.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter US state code to limit to agencies located there, e.g. "CA".

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Only return agencies with at least this CMS quality-of-care rating (1-5 stars, half-star increments). Leave blank for all rated agencies.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of agencies to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxResults": 25
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("m_ctim/home-health-agency-lookup").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("m_ctim/home-health-agency-lookup").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call m_ctim/home-health-agency-lookup --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,m_ctim/home-health-agency-lookup"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/LLbRZmvo4TrXvM2YH/builds/Nbz5Th2RYcUhZIG2A/openapi.json