The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. March 09, 2022
Benefits of using Integrated Electronic Visit Verification for your Home Care Agency
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.
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.
Home Healthcare Industry News
NAHC lays out industry priorities for early 2022
The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) believes its most important role is to serve as untiring advocate for the millions of Americans who receive and provide the highest quality care in the home. Among the many lessons that must be learned from the current public health emergency (PHE) is that care in the home is a vital and irreplaceable part of the health care system. It holds the key to longer life, greater happiness and independence, and in times of crisis, it is a way to protect the most vulnerable citizens while also slowing the spread of contagion.
Biden’s speech underscores lost year for home care
Timing indeed is everything. President Biden’s State of the Union address brought the cliché home for home care. And it stings a bit.
With his single mention of home care in his one-hour, two-minute speech on Tuesday, Biden seemed to say it all for the field: The moment for big investments certainly may have passed.
What the ACO REACH Model Means for Direct Contracting’s Future
A new path was laid out last week for home-based care providers wishing to engage in direct contracting with the federal government.
As the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Thursday, the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) Models will expire at the end of 2022. On Jan. 1, 2023, the accountable care organization (ACO) “REACH” Model – which stands for “Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health” – will take its place.
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