Guide · Requirements by state
License: Health Care Service Firm Registration, issued by New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, Regulated Business Section. State fee: $500 — Annual registration fee of $500 for each primary location — N.J.A.C. 13:45B-7.1 fee schedule ('Health care service firm annual registration, each primary location — $500.00').. Renewal: $500. Bond: $10,000. Administrator: No owner/administrator degree requirement in the registration rule. Each officer, director, principal and owner must file a certification about criminal convictions (N.J.S.A. 34:8-44), and the firm must designate/employ a health care practitioner supervisor — the Division's application instructions require a copy of the New Jersey license of the Health Care Practitioner Supervisor, Registered Nurse or Licensed Physician employed by the agency.
Registration covers a firm that employs individuals to provide health care, personal care or companion services in the home (companion services may include household chores). It is a registration under employment-agency law, not a health-facility license: firms may only provide hands-on care through appropriately licensed/certified personnel (e.g., certified homemaker-health aides supervised by an RN), and licensed home health agencies/hospices regulated by the Department of Health sit outside this registration. The full service-by-service table is on the New Jersey state page — check your marketing against it before you print anything.
Published timeline: The Division publishes no processing-time guarantee in N.J.A.C. 13:45B-13; applications go through the Division's Regulated Business online registration portal.. And if Medicaid clients are part of the plan: Register with NJ Medicaid (NJMMIS) as a provider and deliver Personal Care Assistant (PCA) services largely through NJ FamilyCare managed long-term services and supports (MLTSS) managed care organizations. Accreditation ties into this lane: the accrediting body must be one recognized by the Department of Human Services for homemaker agencies in the Medicaid program (N.J.A.C. 10:60-1.2, referenced in 13:45B-13.5). Enrollment is a second application, on its own clock, after the license exists.
Requirements lists are static; your services are specific. The verdict checker applies New Jersey's rules to your exact service mix and payer lane, and prints the confirm-before-you-file citation with the verdict.
Dataset pages behind this guide: New Jersey 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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