The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. March 02, 2022
Benefits of using an Integrated Software Solution for your Home Care Agency
Home Care Agencies often utilize multiple software solutions to manage their operations as they provide multiple lines of service – Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical Personal Care, and Home Health). The software helps agencies monitor their caregivers – manage schedules, verify visits, track personnel time, manage health records, payments, accounting, and reporting. However, the use of multiple software for different lines of service is not only cumbersome but also an inefficient way of managing operations.
An integrated software platform across these multiple lines of service can provide one patient and employee record to alleviate many of these issues.
To improve operational efficiency. Home Care Agencies must look for a software platform that will meet most of their requirements without manual workarounds. This article shares some of the top 10 features to improve operational efficiency by using an integrated platform.
With falling reimbursement rates, the rollout of PDGM, and increased compliance, Home Care Agencies are under pressure to do more with less. Improving the health of the revenue cycle is a complex process that needs both caregivers and financial administrator to work in synchrony to achieve optimal results. An integrated platform that covers all processes including intake, authorization management, scheduling, billing, and collections, and provides features to manage the revenue cycle requirements of these processes is a must for ensuring optimal reimbursements.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Why Political Roadblocks Threaten Home Health Care’s Biggest Policy Objectives in 2022
Policy concerns in home-based care are considered timely and critical for those in the industry. The issue is, unfortunately, they aren’t always viewed in that light by outsiders and lawmakers in Washington, D.C.
Among those concerns are the extension of the Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver, adequate reimbursement for telehealth and the Choose Home Care Act.
Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has redesigned the Global and Professional Direct Contracting Model (GPDC) Model to advance Administration priorities, including our commitment to advancing health equity, and in response to stakeholder feedback and participant experience. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) is releasing a Request for Applications (RFA) to solicit a cohort of participants for the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) Model. The GPDC model will be renamed the ACO REACH model to better align the model’s name with its purpose: to encourage health care providers to coordinate care to improve the care offered to people with Medicare – especially those from underserved communities, a priority of the Biden-Harris Administration.
ABOUT CAREVOYANT
CareVoyant is a leading provider of cloud-based integrated enterprise-scale home health care software that can support all home-based services under ONE Software, ONE Patient, and ONE Employee, making it a Single System of Record. We support all home care lines of service, including Home Care, Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Home Health, Pediatric Home Care, and Outpatient Therapy.
CareVoyant functions – Intake, Scheduling, Clinical with Mobile options, electronic visit verification, eMAR/eTAR, Financial, Secure Messaging, Notification, Reporting, and Dashboards – streamline workflow, meet regulatory requirements, improve quality of care, optimize reimbursement, and bring operational efficiency.
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