Arizona · Checked October 22, 2026
Non-medical home care is not state-licensed in Arizona — but the lanes around it are regulated, and the skilled door is a different license.
Checked in part. 'No license' is an absence-of-law finding: ADHS health-care-institution licensure and A.R.S. Title 36 cover home HEALTH agencies, and no statute or ADHS license class for non-medical home care agencies was found on primary pages. Lead confirmed. Marked partial because a negative cannot be quoted from a single page; the AHCCCS/ALTCS and EVV cells rest on AHCCCS program materials summarized in search results. Anything the state does not publish is printed as "Not published" below — never filled from blogs or consultancy tables. Confirm on the agency page before you budget.
| Item | Arizona |
|---|---|
| License / registration | None — no state license for non-medical home care agencies |
| Issued by | Arizona Department of Health Services (licenses home health agencies only; no non-medical home care license exists) — official page |
| Application / initial fee | Not published — No state license, so no state license fee for a non-medical home care agency. Ordinary business-formation costs (Arizona Corporation Commission, local business licensing, tax registration) still apply but are not a home care license fee. |
| Renewal | No license to renew in the non-medical lane. |
| Surety bond | No state bond minimum found in the published rules |
| Liability insurance | State sets no minimum |
| Timeline | No state licensing timeline — a non-medical agency can open once its business is formed and staffed. Timelines only appear if the agency seeks AHCCCS/DCW-agency contracts (see medicaid) or an ADHS home health license. |
| Administrator | The state sets no administrator/owner qualification for a non-medical home care agency. Agencies that contract to serve AHCCCS/ALTCS members must meet Direct Care Worker agency requirements (trained, supervised DCWs), which is a payer rule, not a license. |
| State extras | For staff of licensed home health agencies (and other §36-411 institutions), a valid fingerprint clearance card is required — applications within 20 working days of starting work (A.R.S. §36-411). Private-pay non-medical agencies are outside that license-fingerprint statute, but AHCCCS DCW work carries its own background-check and training (incl. CPR/first aid and Fundamentals of Caregiving) requirements under payer rules. |
| Service | Under this license |
|---|---|
| Companionship & supervision | Covered |
| Homemaker help | Covered |
| Hands-on personal care | Covered |
| Live-in / 24-hour care | Covered |
| Transportation | Covered |
| Skilled nursing or therapy | Home health license required |
Because there is no license, there is no license scope — but the line is at skilled care: nursing and other home health services may only be provided by an ADHS-licensed home health agency. A non-medical agency must not hold itself out as providing skilled/home health services.
Separate license: Home Health Agency licensure by ADHS under A.R.S. §36-425.01 (the department 'by rule shall license home health agencies'; licensure period may not exceed 2 years) and the definition at A.R.S. §36-151. No certificate-of-need in Arizona.
Medicaid in Arizona is AHCCCS. Non-medical attendant care, personal care and homemaker services are covered under ALTCS (Arizona Long Term Care System) for nursing-facility-level members, delivered by AHCCCS-registered provider agencies (Direct Care Worker agencies) contracted through ALTCS program contractors (managed care plans); the member's case manager authorizes hours using the HCBS Needs Tool.
AHCCCS requires EVV for attendant care (S5125), personal care (T1019), homemaker (S5130), companion care (S5135) and related HCBS codes. Arizona ran EVV through Sandata, moving to an AHCCCS in-house system from Oct 1, 2025.
The state fee above is one line of the real total. Run the true-cost calculator with Arizona selected — it adds the bond premium, insurance class, screening and the payroll runway your first hires create.
This page is information, not legal advice. Confirm before you file: the agency — not this page — decides your application.
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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