Home Healthcare Weekly News - May 14, 2020
Electronic visit verification was created to reduce fraud and ensure that people receive the documented care they need. EVV was designed to help verify that services billed for home healthcare are for actual visits made. The passing of the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010 made provisions for reducing fraud and over-payments, requiring states to stop Medicaid payments to providers when there is credible evidence of fraud.
What is EVV?’
Electronic visit verification (EVV) is a method used to verify home healthcare visits to ensure patients are not neglected and to cut down on fraudulently documented home visits.
Benefits of Using an Integrated Software Platform for your Home Care Agency
An integrated software platform across these multiple lines of service - Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical Personal Care, and Home Health - can provide one patient and employee record to alleviate many issues Home Care Agencies face.
Outsourcing diagnosis coding and OASIS review is becoming more important as agencies realize that what has been the status quo for the last 20 years has drastically changed, first with PDGM and now with the COVID-19 public health emergency. Focusing resources on patient-facing tasks and offloading fixed costs is a wise decision. If the variable costs create more revenue than the cost itself, then it is a win-win-win situation. The agency, the staff and the patient all win—and you can focus your energies on patients and positive outcome
Home health providers were thrilled when they first heard they would be receiving “no strings attached” payments from the Provider Relief Fund, which was mandated by the CARES Act. However, agencies quickly learned that there was more to the story.
The grant funding comes with conditions, and confusion around those conditions has some home health operators wondering whether they should accept or reject the money.
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