DOH Posts LHCSA and ALP LHCSA Statistical Report

(Sept. 23, 2025) The Department of Health (DOH) issued Dear Administrator Letter (DAL) DHCBS 25-13 announcing the 2024 Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA) Statistical Report and 2024 Assisted Living Program (ALP) LHCSA Statistical Report. The reports are now available for completion and are due Dec. 31, 2025.

Section 3605-b of the Public Health Law (PHL) requires annual registration of all LHCSAs with DOH. As such, all LHCSAs, including those that are affiliated with an ALP, are required to be registered with the Department beginning Jan. 1, 2019, and annually thereafter. The registration status of each LHCSA is then publicly posted on the Department’s Health Data NY website.

LHCSAs must register for 2026 by successfully submitting a complete 2024 LHCSA Statistical Report and/or 2024 ALP LHCSA Statistical Report.

In past years, the Department allowed reporters who had not completed the full Statistical Report to complete a "short form" for registration purposes. Please note that the Department has communicated that it is not planning to issue such a short cut to LHCSAs to facilitate the registration process. Agencies should be diligent in completing the full Statistical Report and registration process.

Failure to complete and submit the Statistical Report by the stipulated deadline will result in the following penalties:

A $500 fine will be assessed for each month, or part of a month, that the LHCSA is not registered.
LHCSAs that are not registered will not be allowed to operate until they become registered.
The Department may revoke the license of any LHCSA that fails to register timely for two years, not necessarily consecutive.

Please note that LHCSAs that were licensed during the current calendar year (2025) will need to complete the registration portion of the Statistical Report to be registered for 2026.

All ALP LHCSAs must submit the 2024 ALP LHCSA Statistical Report. An ALP LHCSA serving patients in the community must also complete and submit all sections of the 2024 LHCSA Statistical Report to report data for these community patients; however, an ALP LHCSA that does not serve patients in the community must only complete and submit the 2024 ALP LHCSA Statistical Report. For those ALP LHCSAs submitting both reports, the submission date of the first successfully submitted report will be considered the submission date for the agency for registration purposes.

Please see the DAL and attachments for details and instructions on reporting, and please keep abreast of all Health Commerce System (HCS) communications for updates on the LHCSA Statistical Report.

Contact: Meg Everett, meverett@leadingageny.org