Specialty Home Health Services
Home health agencies focused on wound care, infusion, or specialty care.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Home Health Agencies (4.6.1), the segment that Specialty Home Health Services sits within. They are not figures for Specialty Home Health Services on its own.
- Market size
- ~$114B
- Growth
- ~6.2%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~28,198 firms
65.3% of firms have fewer than 20 employees: 18,401 micro-businesses, below most mandates.
- 20–99
- 7,04972%
- 100–499
- 1,98320%
- 500+
- 7658%
The medical core of home-based care: ~28,000 Medicare-certified agencies delivering skilled nursing and therapy at home, now topped by payer-owned platforms (Optum/LHC, CenterWell/Kindred) and large operators (Amedisys, Enhabit). Medicare and MA support plus the home-cost advantage drove ~6%/yr growth, though reimbursement policy sets the ceiling. The category also carries hospice, so it slightly overstates skilled home health alone.
NAICS 621610. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Medicare/MA episodic reimbursement for skilled home care
Key economics
- Revenue per firm
- $4,049,493
- Revenue per employee
- $73,191
- Employees per firm
- 55.6
- Recurring revenue
- Moderate–High
- EBITDA margin
- 10–18%
- Capex intensity
- Low
episodic but recurring care
reimbursement-policy-sensitive
Characteristics
- Balanced cost base: payroll is 49% of revenue, leaving room to scale margin without cutting staff
- Deep strategic-buyer pool: 765 firms exceed 500 employees, so a scaled asset has trade buyers
- Medical core of home-based care, payer-owned at the top.
- Cost advantage of treating patients at home.
- Reimbursement policy heavily shapes economics.
NAICS 621610. U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Statistics of U.S. Businesses; U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census.
M&A deal context
Who’s acquiring
- Payer-owned home-health platforms
- Large home-health operators
- PE-backed consolidators
What’s driving deals
- Payer acquisition and vertical integration.
- Antitrust scrutiny of major deals.
- Medicare Advantage and care-shift demand.
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