Sources

Every listing on this site comes from a named public file with an as-of date. We link official pages only when we could open the URL during this build.

Texas HHSC HCSSA directory

• File: HHA.xlsx
• Workbook title: Texas Health and Human Services Commission Directory of Home and Community Support Services Agencies (HCSSA) with an Active License as of 11/09/2026
• Active-license date: November 9, 2026
• Downloaded (America/Chicago): 2026-11-11T01:08:54.888961-06:00
• SHA-256: 9fd302ab1e1dcb2d5fd5b215d45986b381b527bc3f7567c9a9c71e342af08728

This is a public state roster of Home and Community Support Services Agencies. We attribute HHSC on pages that use it. We do not offer the workbook as a download from this site.

CMS hospice and home health data

CMS public files were joined by padded Medicare CCN (the CMS Certification Number in the Texas directory). Figures are shown as CMS published them. This site does not invent scores or a homemade rank.

Hospice

• Release date: August 26, 2026
• Topic page: CMS hospice care data
• Datasets:General Information (yc9t-dgbk), quality measures (252m-zfp9), CAHPS Hospice Survey (gxki-hrr8), and ZIP service areas (95rg-2usp).
• 1,011 Texas-licensed hospice listings were joined to a CCN in the CMS general-information file (735 unique CCNs).10 hospice Medicare numbers in the state file were not found in that CMS file.
• 43,533 ZIP service-area pairs across 740 hospice CCNs.

Home health

• Release date: October 21, 2026
• Topic page: CMS home health data
• Dataset: Home Health Agencies (6jpm-sxkc), used for the CMS quality of patient care star rating.
• 1,772 Texas-licensed home health listings were joined.989 of those listings have a published star rating in this release.

Files were read from the official datastore download at https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/{id}/0/download?format=csv. Certified listings also link to Medicare Care Comparewhen a Medicare number is present.

Official pages cited in the guides

These URLs returned a successful response when we checked them:

• Medicare.gov: hospice care coverage
• CMS: hospice benefit overview
• National Institute on Aging: palliative care and hospice
• National Cancer Institute: palliative care in cancer
• Center to Advance Palliative Care: about palliative care
• getpalliativecare.org: what is palliative care
• TULIP LTC provider search
• DFPS: report abuse or neglect — Texas Abuse Hotline 800-252-5400
• DFPS: hotlines
• Texas Abuse Hotline (online reports)

Some HHSC web pages about complaints returned an access-denied response from this environment, so we do not cite those URLs. The complaint telephone number 800-458-9858is widely published by HHSC for Complaint and Incident Intake; we also point families to TULIP. To report abuse, neglect, or exploitation, use the Texas Abuse Hotline at 800-252-5400(Texas Department of Family and Protective Services).

What we do not use

• TULIP, except as an outbound verification link
• User reviews or facility-paid placements
• Invented ratings or a homemade composite score
• Any collection of personal health information