The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news.March 28, 2024
Streamline Payroll Processing with Integrated Home Care Software
Routinely, payroll week is stressful for Home Care Agencies. Collecting accurate information from different staff, then processing payroll data accurately and in a timely manner is intricate, time-consuming, and challenging. Though collecting payroll information on time is often challenging, prompt and accurate payroll is one of the most important criteria to improving employee satisfaction and retention in Home Health Care.
Authorization Management plays an outsized role in Revenue Cycle Management. Effective and efficient authorization management will help home care agencies improve the bottom line by reducing non-billable shifts and payroll for non-billable shifts.
Eligibility verification is the first step in authorization management. Proactively managing expiring authorizations and getting new authorizations when coverage changes will keep authorization current. Integrating authorization with scheduling will help agencies reduce or eliminate providing services without authorization. Claims scrubbers can hold the claims back for the services provided during that authorization process.
In today’s environment of employee scarcity, Home Care Agencies often find themselves wondering, “How can I keep up with growing demand for services with fewer staff?”
Home Care Agencies have multiple strategies to respond to the growing pressure to perform, like refining training and on-boarding, hiring events, and improving interviewing processes. However, one thing Home Care Agencies can count on to meet growing demand with fewer staff is Home Care Scheduling Software to optimize employee utilization.
Home Healthcare Industry News
MedPAC recommends 7% cut for home health
For home health payments in 2025, MedPAC’s commission is again recommending a 7% reduction in the base payment rate. The commissions recommendations to Congress also included no payment update for hospice providers.
Home-Focused PACE Model Continues To Gain Traction Across US
A Georgia House Bill that would create a Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) was passed by the state senate earlier this month. House Bill 1078 passed in a 49 to 1 senate vote.
Medicare, Medicaid to cover weight loss drug for heart disease risk
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services disclosed last week it will provide coverage for the popular weight loss drug Wegovy for patients at high risk for cardiovascular disease and stroke.
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