Essential Features for Home and Community Based Services Software

Medicaid beneficiaries are increasingly receiving LTSS through HCBS. Because states can limit enrollment in HCBS waivers, most states report having HCBS waiver waiting lists totaling over 665,000 people nationally. Proposed additional funding for HCBS will enable states to reduce their HCBS waiver waiting lists and add more people to HCBS. The need for HCBS services will continue to grow in the foreseeable future. Home Health Care Agencies looking for growth and expansion should consider HCBS services as one of the options.

This blog will discuss some of the essential features required in the software to manage HCBS Home Care Agencies efficiently.

Home and Community Based Services: An Introduction

Home and Community Based Services: An Introduction

Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) allow Medicaid beneficiaries to receive services in their home or community rather than institutions or other isolated settings. These programs serve a variety of targeted population groups, such as people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, physical disabilities, or mental illnesses. Over 3.5 million individuals receive HCBS through various Medicaid Waiver programs.

Effective Intake Process for Revenue Cycle Management

Effective Intake Process for Revenue Cycle Management

Effective Intake Process plays an outsized role in Revenue Cycle Management. Collecting timely and accurate information at the point of referral and intake will help Home Care Agencies to reduce denied claims and improve reimbursement time and cash flow. Home Care Agencies must leverage technology and integrated intelligent automation to improve intake efficiency and enable their staff to do more with less. Improving cash flow will help agencies continue providing quality care and improve patient and employee satisfaction.

Four Tips for Enhancing Your Home Healthcare Agency's Online Presence

This blog post will go over some of the key approaches like growing the social media presence, optimizing website listings, running efficient AdWords campaigns, and evaluating and analyzing results for Home Healthcare Agencies.

Scheduling Efficiency for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies

Scheduling Efficiency for Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies

Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies should look for a software platform with functions and features to meet the unique scheduling requirements for private duty nursing care. CareVoyant understands the demanding needs to manage Private Duty Home Care Agencies providing skilled care for medically fragile patients while supporting other services like Non-Medical Personal Care, HCBS, and Home Health. CareVoyant Home Care software platform offers the right technology and tools to help a Private Duty Home Care Agency effectively manage the agency and improve operational efficiency and the agency's bottom line. 

This blog will discuss some of the vital scheduling features required in the software to improve the scheduling efficiency of Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies.

SEO Tips for Home Healthcare Agencies

Consumers are increasingly using internet to search for goods and services. Patients and families looking for home care services will be no different. They will be using Google and other search engines to search for home health care agencies for services. Understanding Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is pivotal for home care agencies to stay on top of today's digital environment. In this blog post, we'll review tips and strategies to improve the contents and search engine rankings of your website. Keep reading to learn how to create relevant content and stay ahead of the competition by optimizing your website for SEO.

The Essential Features of Private Duty Nursing Home Care Software

The Essential Features of Private Duty Nursing Home Care Software

Many Private Duty Nursing Home Care agencies use home care software platforms designed for visit-based home health agencies for Private Duty Nursing services. This approach leads to many operational inefficiencies for Private Duty Nursing agencies. Home Care Agencies providing Private Duty Nursing services should adopt software that will meet complex and demanding requirements.

This blog will discuss some of the critical features required in the software to manage Private Duty Nursing Home Care Agencies efficiently.

CareVoyant Ranked as Easiest to Do Business with in Private Duty Home Care on G2.com

CareVoyant Ranked as Easiest to Do Business with in Private Duty Home Care on G2.com

Winter 2023 rankings of home healthcare software providers are out on G2.com. CareVoyant has been named again as a Leader, High Performer, and Easiest to Do Business With across Home Care Software Categories. CareVoyant has again been listed under ‘Users Love Us’ Category.

6 Benefits of an Integrated Software Solution for Your Home Care Agency

6 Benefits of an Integrated Software Solution for Your Home Care Agency

Agencies should leverage technology and software platforms to do more with less and improve operation efficiency. An integrated home care software platform that can handle multiple services and payers will help agencies to manage their operations efficiently and overcome the challenges posed by the labor shortage, wage increases, and reimbursement cuts. This blog will discuss the benefits of an integrated Home Care Software Platform for an agency with multiple services and payers.

Effective Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Software for Home Care Agencies

Effective Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) Software for Home Care Agencies

Home Care Agencies should take a holistic approach to implementing EVV solutions rather the settling for the solutions provided by the state or managed care providers. Taking an integrated approach will improve operational efficiency and the agencies bottom line.

Home Health Care Trends for 2023

Home Health Care Trends for 2023

Despite reimbursement cuts, labor shortages, and inflation, the future of home base services remains bright despite the challenges posed by reimbursement cuts. Home Health Care agencies investing in people and technology will grow and thrive in the future.

Benefits of Care Team Communication for Home Care Agencies

Benefits of Care Team Communication for Home Care Agencies

For Home Care Agencies, timely and effective communication among the care team plays a critical role in providing quality patient care. Connected Care Team will lead to successful patient outcomes, improved patient satisfaction, improved employee satisfaction, and growth while being compliant with regulatory requirements.

Work-Life Balance for Caregivers

Work-Life Balance for Caregivers

Healthcare is an incredibly stressful career field. Caregivers constantly face things others could never even dream of, and providing care in a home-based setting adds to that stress. Caregivers in home-based settings work most of their time independently, develop a closer relationship with the patient and family, and often work long hours. To prevent burnout, caregivers need to maintain an excellent work-life balance. We share below some strategies to help maintain a good work-life balance:

Four Strategies to Support New Home Healthcare Clinicians

Four Strategies to Support New Home Healthcare Clinicians

New nurses, CNAs, and caregivers can often feel lost and overwhelmed due to the immense responsibility they now hold for sometimes critically ill patients. Lack of proper support through these new challenges can lead to employee burnout, job dissatisfaction, and decreased patient care. There are countless benefits to supporting new clinicians, including increased employee retention, increased employee referrals, and improved patient care.

Payer Diversification Strategies for Home Health Care Agencies

Payer Diversification Strategies for Home Health Care Agencies

Home Health Care Agencies can adopt payer diversification strategies to mitigate the impact of reimbursement cuts by diversifying the payer mix and services offered. Diversifying the payer mix will reduce volatility in revenue and mitigate the impact of reimbursement cuts for the agencies.

Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) – Is Your Software Ready?

Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) – Is Your Software Ready?

HHVBP represents the most significant change to provide incentives (or penalties) to Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies to give higher quality and more efficient care. This blog reviews the must-have functionalities in your home care agency management software platform to help you succeed in the HHVBP Model.

Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) – A Primer

Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) – A Primer

HHVBP represents the most significant change to provide incentives (or penalties) to Medicare Certified Home Health Agencies to give higher quality and more efficient care. Home Health Agencies must review processes to monitor quality outcomes and adjust as needed.

Home Health OASIS-E Changes – Is Your Software Ready?

Home Health OASIS-E Changes – Is Your Software Ready?

The software platform will play a critical role in helping Home Health Agencies to implement OASIS-E changes. Agencies should check with their software vendors to understand their plans to accommodate OASIS-E, make sure their plan will meet the requirements, and adjust their process accordingly.

This blog reviews the functions needed to support your transition to OASIS-E.

Home Health OASIS-E Changes – A Primer

Home Health OASIS-E Changes – A Primer

After delaying the implementation of OASIS-E changes due to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, CMS has announced that Home Health Agencies should implement OASIS-E changes by January 1, 2023. Home Health Agencies should understand the extent of OASIS-E changes.

In this blog, we will review OASIS-E changes, the impact of these changes, and how the agencies should prepare for these changes.

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