An outcome, nationally
Patients whose home-health care began in a timely manner
Across 8,640 U.S. home-health agencies, the median one helps 97.85% of patients start care without delay — but the spread is enormous, and which agency a patient lands with makes a real difference. Why it matters: the first days after discharge decide whether recovery sticks.
Distribution across 8,640 agencies · % of patients who start care without delay
The shaded middle half (p25–p75) holds the typical agency; the dashed lines are the 10th–90th percentile span. A patient at a p90 agency vs a p10 agency lives a very different recovery.
What these figures mean
- MEASURED — each agency's rate is a CMS-measured OASIS outcome: a real change in patients.
- COMPUTED — the national distribution (median, percentiles, this curve) is our aggregation over the public panel; CMS doesn't publish it.
- CONTEXT — the note below is framing, not a measurement.
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Find the agencies that ace this
This is the national picture. To find the home-health agencies near you that land at the high end of this curve, browse home-health agencies and compare their measured outcomes — then verify at medicare.gov/care-compare.
What this is — and is not
This is the national distribution of one measured outcome across agencies — not a rating of any single agency, and not a prediction of how you or your relative will do (your clinician knows your case). The spread is real: choosing well moves a patient across a wide distribution of measured recovery. Source: CMS Home Health Care Compare.