Amber Home Health Care

What Amber Home Health Care does

Amber Home Health Care is a privately held, CMS-certified home health agency headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, operating continuously since its 2003 founding. The company delivers in-home clinical care to patients across the Metro Detroit region, with a service mix that covers skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social work, and home health aide support. Care is delivered by licensed clinical staff to patients typically referred through hospital discharges, physician orders, and senior-living partnerships. The agency is founder-led by CEO Inder Thawani and operates with a workforce in the 51–100 employee range.

The business model is built on fee-for-service reimbursement from third-party payers. As a Medicare-certified home health agency, Amber bills primarily under Medicare home health episodic payment rules, supplemented by private insurance and workers' compensation. Operations are governed by CMS Conditions of Participation, OASIS-driven clinical documentation, and periodic survey requirements that apply across the U.S. home health industry. The agency has cultivated a referral relationship with Pomeroy Living, a Michigan senior-living operator, providing an institutionalized pipeline of post-acute and resident patients into its home health services.

Operationally, Amber is a regional service provider with no disclosed proprietary software platform, technology infrastructure, or AI/ML capabilities in the available data. Its external presence is limited to standard digital marketing channels — a content blog, email, LinkedIn, and Facebook — used principally for patient and family outreach rather than as a productized platform. The agency's competitive positioning rests on its CMS certification, local referral relationships, and clinical staffing rather than on differentiated technology or scaled geographic reach.

Name

Amber Home Health Care

Legal name

Amber Home Health Care Inc.

Website

https://amberhomehealth.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Amber Home Health Care is a CMS-certified, founder-led home health agency in Southfield, Michigan, delivering skilled nursing, therapy, and home health aide services to Metro Detroit patients reimbursed primarily through Medicare, private insurance, and workers' compensation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Home Healthcare Services

NAICS

Home Health Care Services (621610)

SIC

Services-Home Health Care Services (8082)

akta.pro primary industry

Medicare-Certified Skilled Home Health Agencies (HHA) (HLADAFAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Skilled Home Health Therapy Services (PT/OT/SLP) (HLADAFAE), Home Health Clinical Care Coordination & Case Management (HSABACAO), Home-Based Chronic Disease Management (Skilled) (HLADAFAL)

Keywords

• Home health services
• Skilled nursing care
• Physical therapy services
• Home health aide
• Occupational therapy services

Headquarters

HQ city

Southfield

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Insurance Reimbursement - Medicare: Revenue generated through Medicare coverage for home health services provided to eligible beneficiaries. Services covered include skilled nursing, therapy services, and home health aide care.
2. Insurance Reimbursement - Private Insurance: Revenue from contracted private insurance plans including Aetna, Anthem BCBS, HighMark, Cigna, Humana, and other major insurers. Services are billed based on care plans and insurance contracts.
3. Workers' Compensation: Revenue from auto insurance and workers' compensation claims for eligible home health services in Michigan.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Amber Home Health Care is a CMS-certified, accredited home health organization providing in-home skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social work, and home health aide services to homebound patients. The company delivers multidisciplinary, in-home clinical care to individuals recovering from illness, injury, or managing chronic conditions across Metro Detroit.

Product overview

Amber Home Health Care is a CMS-certified accredited home health organization providing a unified suite of in-home healthcare services in the Metro Detroit area. The portfolio consists of six core service lines: Skilled Nursing (including wound care, catheter care, medication management, and Alzheimer's/dementia care), Physical Therapy (for orthopedic and neurological conditions), Occupational Therapy (for ADL restoration and equipment training), Speech Therapy (including articulation, fluency, and dysphagia therapy), Medical Social Worker Services (for care coordination and community resources), and Home Health Aide Services (for ADL assistance). These services are delivered by registered nurses, licensed therapists, social workers, and certified aides working as an interdisciplinary team to provide coordinated, personalized care in patients' homes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Skilled Nursing Physician-ordered in-home skilled nursing care for homebound patients, including wound care, medication management, chronic disease monitoring, and post-acute clinical assessments.
• Physical Therapy In-home physical therapy services to help patients regain mobility, strength, and functional independence after illness, surgery, or injury.
• Occupational Therapy In-home occupational therapy aimed at restoring patients' ability to perform activities of daily living and adapt to functional limitations at home.
• Speech Therapy In-home speech-language pathology services for patients with speech, language, swallowing, or cognitive-communication disorders.
• Medical Social Worker Services In-home medical social work services to help patients and families navigate psychosocial, emotional, and community-resource needs associated with illness or disability.
• Home Health Aide Services Personal-care support from certified home health aides assisting homebound patients with daily living activities under a plan of care.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Pomeroy LivingminorOthersPartner organization displayed on the company's website. Pomeroy Living is a senior living provider, and the partnership appears to involve referral coordination or collaborative care for shared patients in the Michigan area.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Help at Home: Large personal care and home health provider focused on Medicaid and dual-eligible populations. Comparable operational model delivering in-home aide and skilled services; relevant peer given Amber's pure Medicare/commercial mix.
• Aveanna Healthcare: Diversified home health and medical solutions provider offering skilled nursing, therapy, and aide services across multiple states. Comparable multi-state/multi-region mid-sized operator with similar service mix.
• Interim HealthCare: Franchised home health, hospice, and personal care provider with a similar mix of skilled nursing, therapy, and home health aide services. Closely aligned mid-market, multi-disciplinary home health franchise model.
• BAYADA Home Health Care: One of the largest U.S. non-profit and for-profit home health providers offering skilled nursing, therapy, and home health aide services across multiple states. Highly comparable multi-disciplinary service model and CMS-certified operating posture.
• Compassus: National provider of home health, hospice, and palliative care services with comparable skilled nursing and therapy offerings. Overlaps directly with Amber's clinical service lines and referral-driven go-to-market.

Broad incumbents

• LHC Group: Large U.S. home health, hospice, and facility-based services provider (now part of Optum). Operates the same Medicare-certified skilled home health model as Amber with extensive joint-venture relationships with hospitals and health systems.
• CenterWell Home Health (Humana): Humana-owned home health division delivering skilled nursing, therapy, and home health aide services with strong Medicare Advantage alignment. Competes for the same MA-referred skilled home health patients as Amber.
• Amedisys: National home health and hospice operator (now part of Optum) providing skilled nursing, therapy, and hospice across dozens of states. Direct service-line overlap with Amber; competes for the same Medicare-reimbursed skilled home health referrals but at vastly greater scale.
• BrightSpring Health Services: Diversified home and community-based services platform including home health, hospice, pharmacy, and personal care. Adjacent in its home health offering and increasingly relevant as a consolidator of mid-sized HHAs.
• Encompass Health: National post-acute provider with a sizeable home health segment (Enhabit) prior to spin-off and rehab hospitals. Comparable in skilled nursing and therapy service lines for post-acute and rehabilitation patients.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/AmberHomeHealthCareInc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/amber-home-health-care-inc

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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