Massachusetts home health care agencies: 287 Medicare-certified, source-cited quality data.
CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating, ownership type, and certification status for every Medicare-certified home health agency in Massachusetts — with explicit suppression flags where CMS withholds quality measures because of low patient volume.
Editorial note: Massachusetts has dense local journalism + AARP coverage of home-care services; Fonteum's contribution is the per-agency data layer, not editorial commentary.
Massachusettsquality & ownership at a glance
Aggregates below are scoped to Massachusetts’s 287 Medicare-certified agencies. Ownership type is self-reported to CMS; quality ratings refresh on the CMS Care Compare cadence.
Quality rating distribution & service coverage — Massachusetts
How Massachusetts’s rated agencies spread across the CMS Quality of Patient Care star scale, and the share offering each Medicare-reportable service line. Suppressed (unrated) agencies are excluded from the star distribution.
Quality of Patient Care star-rating distribution
Service-line coverage
| Service line | Agencies offering | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing care | 274 | 95.5% |
| Physical therapy | 241 | 84.0% |
| Occupational therapy | 207 | 72.1% |
| Speech pathology | 167 | 58.2% |
| Medical social services | 167 | 58.2% |
| Home health aide | 244 | 85.0% |
Home health agencies in Massachusetts
Top 25 of 287 by CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating (122 carry a published rating; the remainder are suppressed for low patient volume). The table is an unlinked state inventory.
| Agency | City | Ownership | Quality (of 5) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centerwell home health | PITTSFIELD | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Croi health | NORWELL | NON-PROFIT | 5 |
| Elara caring | BRAINTREE | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Patient care solutions, llc | DANVERS | PROPRIETARY | 5 |
| Alternative home health care, llc | METHUEN | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Amedisys home health care | WAKEFIELD | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Brockton vna | BROCKTON | NON-PROFIT | 4.5 |
| Caring bees healthcare inc | QUINCY | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Centerwell home health | FALL RIVER | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Centerwell home health | MARLBOROUGH | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Central home health care, inc | NEEDHAM | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Elara caring | NEWBURYPORT | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Metrowest homecare and hospice, an amedisys company | MARLBOROUGH | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Pivot point homecare services llc | WESTBOROUGH | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Preferred transitions home health care inc | MILFORD | PROPRIETARY | 4.5 |
| Accentcare home health of massachusetts | FALL RIVER | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| All care vna-greater lynn inc | LYNN | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Amedisys home health care | AGAWAM | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Aveanna home health | WORCESTER | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Caretenders | NEEDHAM HEIGHTS | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Caretenders | HOLYOKE | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Centerwell home health | SANDWICH | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
| Community nurse home care | FAIRHAVEN | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Emerson hospital home care program | CONCORD | NON-PROFIT | 4 |
| Guardian home health care, llc | W BRIDGEWATER | PROPRIETARY | 4 |
Massachusetts home health agencies — FAQ
- How many Medicare-certified home health agencies are in Massachusetts?
- 287 Medicare-certified home health agencies operate in Massachusetts as of the CMS Care Compare Home Health snapshot (2026-05-07). 122 carry a published CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating, averaging 2.96 of 5.
- What quality measures does Massachusetts home health data include?
- This page aggregates the CMS Quality of Patient Care star rating — CMS's published composite of the underlying OASIS outcome and process measures — plus the share of agencies offering each service line. The individual OASIS measure rates and HHCAHPS patient-experience scores live in separate CMS companion files and are not part of this identity-and-rating snapshot.
- Why do some agencies have no star rating?
- CMS suppresses the Quality of Patient Care star rating when an agency has fewer than the minimum number of completed quality episodes in the measurement window. Those agencies still appear in the list but are excluded from the state average rather than counted as zero.
- Where does this home health data come from and how current is it?
- The displayed fields come from the CMS Care Compare Home Health Care Agencies file, source-modified 2026-03-05. Record-level provenance can be null; cross-check a consequential agency record at Medicare.gov.
Compare other facility types
Supported Care Compare facility responses for Massachusetts and other states expose source-and-date fields where the module supplies them; individual fields may be absent or null.