Guide · Scope
Non-medical agencies sell time and trust: companionship and supervision, homemaker help (meals, laundry, light housekeeping), hands-on personal care (bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, mobility help), live-in care, transportation, respite for family caregivers, and medication reminders. Which of those your license covers is a state question — and for hands-on personal care, it is the state question.
The line is not 'medical vs non-medical' in the abstract; it is the scope written into your license class. Florida's companion registration excludes hands-on care entirely. Texas folds services into categories you select on the HCSSA license in advance — sell a category you didn't select and you are out of scope. Illinois splits the world into four license types. Your scope is a list, and your marketing must match the list word for word.
'Medication management' (you may remind; managing is nursing), 'wound care', 'dementia care' used to imply clinical services, 'nurse' anywhere in a job title for an aide. Advertising a service is offering it, and offering it outside your scope is the violation — the client never has to materialize.
Dataset pages behind this guide: Florida state page · Texas state page · Illinois state page · the full 50-state dataset (checked October 22, 2026).
Guides are general; verdicts are specific. The license checker applies your state's rules to your service mix, and the cost calculator prices your opening from the same dataset this guide cites.
The free checkers give you the verdict and the number. The Kit gives you the working papers: your state's application packet walked through in filing order, the policies-and-procedures binder spec (what your binder must contain — never a boilerplate binder), the administrator self-audit, the insurance & bond spec sheet, the Medicaid gate map, the franchise-vs-independent 10-year worksheets, and the payroll-runway planner.
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