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Significant Accounting Policies - Additional Information (Detail)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2015
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Summary Of Significant Accounting Policies [Line Items]  
Number of Medicare home health resource groups 153lhcg_NumberOfMedicareHomeHealthResourceGroups
Number of days from date RAP paid to submit final Medicare bill 60 days
Low utilization adjustment visits 5lhcg_MinimumNumberOfVisitsForLowUtilizationAdjustment
Selected hospice, periodic rate used to calculate revenue 1lhcg_SelectedHospicePeriodicRateUsedtoCalculateRevenue
Number of hospice, periodic rates used to calculate revenue 4lhcg_NumberofHospicePeriodicRatesUsedtoCalculateRevenue
Minimum percentage of Medicare reimbursement from inpatient care services that subjects individual programs to inpatient cap 20.00%lhcg_PercentageSubjectToInpatientCap
Determination period for hospice Medicare inpatient reimbursement cap 12 months
Medicare credit risk for accounts receivable 55.00%lhcg_MedicareCreditRiskForAccountsReceivable
Reimbursement for initial episode of care 60.00%lhcg_ReimbursementForInitialEpisodeOfCare
Number of days from start of episode to submit final Medicare bill 120 days
Reimbursement for subsequent episodes of care 50.00%lhcg_ReimbursementForSubsequentEpisodesOfCare