50-State Regulatory Atlas Connecticut
State licensing summary
Connecticut: healthcare licensing and regulation
Connecticut: one license, branches listed or approved; certificate of need: confirm with the state agency; compact member. Regulator: Connecticut Department of Public Health.
Educational summary, last reviewed October 17, 2026. Not legal advice — confirm with the state licensing agency or counsel.
11 findings: 3 provisional, 1 disputed, 7 verified. How findings are sourced and labelled.
At a glance
- License
- State license requiredProvisional
- Regulator
- Connecticut Department of Public Health
- Branch offices
- One license, branches listed or approvedVerified
- Certificate of need
- Certificate of need: confirm with the state agencyDisputed
- Service area
- Confirm with the state agencyProvisional
- In-state office
- Required: an in-state office or licensed parentVerified
- Medicare certification
- Separate federal step, only for agencies that bill MedicareVerified
Home health licensing
State license
ProvisionalYes. The Department of Public Health licenses home health care agencies (Conn. Gen. Stat. § 19a-490; Regs. §§ 19-13-D66 to D79). Homemaker-home health aide agencies are a separate category. The regulation copy is marked current through 2006; later amendments: Confirm with the state agency
In practice: Hold the authority the state requires before the first patient is admitted there, and keep its number, category and expiry with the office it covers.
Certificate of need
DisputedSources conflict. Confirm with the state agency
In practice: Ask the state planning agency whether a certificate of need applies before applying for the license.
Source: Regs. Conn. State Agencies §§ 19-13-D66 to D79CT DPH Home Health Unit
Branch offices
VerifiedThe central office is licensed, with lines of authority defined in writing; each other office must itself meet the rules on clinical supervision, services, care plans, records and facilities.
In practice: Track each office’s authority on its own where the state licenses offices separately, and with the parent where it lists them.
Source: Regs. Conn. State Agencies §§ 19-13-D66 to D79CT DPH Home Health Unit
Service area
ProvisionalConfirm with the state agency Not established in this review.
In practice: Check the patient’s address against the approved service area before accepting a referral.
Source: Regs. Conn. State Agencies §§ 19-13-D66 to D79CT DPH Home Health Unit
Out-of-state agencies
VerifiedThe central office and any offices serving Connecticut residents must be in Connecticut, and control must rest with a corporation chartered or qualified in Connecticut or with Connecticut residents.
In practice: A license in one state does not authorize care in another; the patient’s state decides.
Source: Regs. Conn. State Agencies §§ 19-13-D66 to D79CT DPH Home Health Unit
Home infusion nursing
Home infusion nursing
VerifiedConnecticut’s rules name infusion therapy: blood and blood products are excluded, a monitoring program is required, RNs must be trained in infusion, and written policies cover scope, credentials, orders, documentation and adverse reactions (§ 19-13-D72).
In practice: Confirm the license category before staffing infusion visits in this state.
Source: Regs. Conn. State Agencies §§ 19-13-D66 to D79CT DPH Home Health Unit
Staffing and nurse licensure
Nurse licensure (compact)
VerifiedMember of the Nurse Licensure Compact, implemented. A nurse with a multistate license from another compact state may practice here; the agency still needs this state’s own authority to operate.
In practice: Check each nurse’s license against the patient’s state, not the agency’s.
Temporary nursing services agencies register annually with the Department of Public Health. The statute section was not confirmed.
In practice: Confirm the registration requirement and statute with the Department.
Source: CT DPH Home Health Unit
State coverage for healthcare staffing is partial; more states are being reviewed.
Medicare, hospice and VA programs in this state
Connecticut is not one of the six states in CMS’s Review Choice Demonstration for home health (Illinois, Ohio, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma).
Source: CMS: Review Choice Demonstration for Home Health Services
Connecticut is not one of the six states (Arizona, California, Nevada, Texas, Georgia, Ohio) where CMS applies its provisional period of enhanced oversight to newly enrolling hospices.
Source: CMS Medical Review: Hospice
VA Community Care Network region
VerifiedConnecticut is in Community Care Network Region 1, administered by Optum. Agencies join by contracting with the regional third-party administrator, not with VA. VA has re-procured the network as CCN Next Generation with two regions, East and West; which administrator serves which region from 2027 was not announced in the sources reviewed.
Time-sensitive. Region assignments change with CCN Next Generation; recheck VA’s announcements during 2027.
Source: VA: Community Care Network
Federal rules that apply in every state
Medicare certification
VerifiedMedicare certification under the home health Conditions of Participation (42 CFR Part 484) is a federal step for agencies that bill Medicare home health. It is separate from the state license. Where a state ties entry to certification, that state’s findings say so.
In practice: A branch serving a portion of the parent’s area is supervised and administered by the parent agency (42 CFR 484.2).
Source: 42 CFR 484.2
For a Medicare-certified agency, “its personnel must be qualified in all States in which they provide services” (State Operations Manual § 2184).
In practice: Nurse licensure follows the patient’s state.
Medicare’s home infusion therapy benefit is a separate Part B supplier benefit, not a home health benefit. It pays an accredited, qualified home infusion therapy supplier for professional services tied to specific parenteral drugs given through a pump that is durable medical equipment (42 CFR Part 486, Subpart I).
In practice: Most pharmacy-dispensed home infusion is not billable under this benefit; nursing for those patients is usually paid by other payers or under contract.
Compared with Texas
One license covers several compliant offices. Aide supervision every 4 weeks; one supervisor of clinical services per 15 professional staff; administrative records 7 years.
Other service lines
State rules for these lines are being added to the guide: Medicare home health, Medicare home infusion therapy benefit, Infusion pharmacy, Hospice, Private duty nursing, Personal care and Medicaid HCBS, VA community care, Infusion suites.
Look up a licensed provider
- eLicense Online License Lookup VerifiedConnecticut Department of Public Health, Facility Licensing & Investigations Section (shared platform with Department of Consumer Protection)
Home health care, homemaker-home health aide, hospice and temporary nursing service agency licenses, plus DCP homemaker-companion registrations.
- eLicense Roster Generator VerifiedConnecticut Department of Public Health
Downloadable rosters by license type, including home health, hospice and temporary nursing service agencies.
National lookups
- Medicare Care Compare — Home health
Medicare-certified home health agencies with quality ratings and services offered.
- Medicare Care Compare — Hospice
Medicare-certified hospices with quality measures.
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — Home Health Care Agencies (6jpm-sxkc)
All Medicare-registered home health agencies with CCN, address, ownership, services, certification date and quality measures, as CSV and an unauthenticated API.
- CMS Provider Data Catalog — Hospice – General Information (yc9t-dgbk)
Medicare-certified hospices with CCN, address, county, ownership type and certification date, as CSV and an unauthenticated API.
- CMS QCOR — HHA 2567 Statements of Deficiencies
Federal survey statements of deficiencies for home health agencies, filterable by state, survey type, tag and CCN, with a full-dataset XLSX download.
- CMS QCOR — Hospice 2567s
Federal survey statements of deficiencies for hospices.
- NPPES NPI Registry
National Provider Identifier records with addresses, authorized official and taxonomies, with a public API.
- HHS-OIG List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE)
Individuals and entities excluded from federal health care programs, with a monthly downloadable database.
- SAM.gov Exclusions
Federal exclusion records across agencies.
- Nursys QuickConfirm
Nurse license status, discipline / board-issued alerts and expiry, free to employers and the public.
Associations
- Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Homehome health, hospice, home care (private duty and personal care)
Offers advocacy and position statements, regulatory resources, statewide and regional conferences, and a consumer search across home health, hospice and personal care.
- Home Care Association of America (HCAOA), Connecticut chapterhome care (private duty and personal care)
The state chapter of the national home care association; HCAOA chapters handle state advocacy, networking and legislative tracking.
Official sources
About this guide. Published and maintained by Paloma Health Technologies; Findings are cited to official sources, dated and status-labelled; see the editorial policy. Educational summary, last reviewed October 17, 2026. Not legal advice — confirm with the state licensing agency or counsel.