Integrated EVV Platform For Home Care Agencies

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The Home Health Care Wire  Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. June 25, 2021 Home Health Care agencies should take a holistic view of their needs for a software platform rather than just focusing on their EVV needs. Using an integrated home care software platform to meet all the requirements of a home care agency will provide significant benefits that will outweigh the cost savings of ‘Free’ EVV. Read More The 21st Century Cures Act requires home care agencies providing personal care services to implement an electronic visit verification system - digitally verifying location, date time, and services provided. Increasing demand for in-home personal care services will require a simple, accurate, and efficient EVV platform to meet the Cares Act requirements. CareVoyant CV Mobile is a powerful, simple, easy-to-use, integrated platform to meet disparate EVV requirements for multiple states. CV Mobile displays, employee schedules, and the care plan to document. CV Mobile captures GPS location, tasks performed, time-in, and time-out at point of care for each visit. CV Mobile offline can be used to document services in locations with limited connectivity.  Integration with authorization, care plan scheduling, billing, and payroll, streamlines the process and enforces compliance. Monitor shifts in progress using real-time schedule monitor to improve patient satisfaction and outcome. CV Mobile will send verified visits to EVV aggregators to improve compliance and reduce claim denials.    Watch the Video Read More CareVoyant on G2 Home Healthcare Industry News   Biden Quietly Transforms Medicaid Safety Net The Biden administration is quietly engineering a series of expansions to Medicaid that may bolster protections for millions of low-income Americans and bring more people into the program. Biden’s efforts — which have been largely overshadowed by other economic and health initiatives — represent an abrupt reversal of the Trump administration’s moves to scale back the safety-net program. READ MORE   ‘Better Care Better Jobs Act’ Seeks Permanent FMAP Bump, Higher Wages for HCBS Workers A bicameral group of U.S. lawmakers unveiled new legislation Thursday designed to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into home-based care over the next several years. The legislation — officially titled the “Better Care Better Jobs Act” — is sponsored by U.S. Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Ron Wyden of Oregon, in addition to U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan. The three Democrats have been vocal supporters of home- and community-based services (HCBS), especially Casey in recent months. READ MORE Health Care Operators Confident CMS Hospital-at-Home Waiver Will Become Permanent The explosion of hospital-at-home programs in the U.S. is partly thanks to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) “Acute Hospital Care at Home” waiver, which will last as long as the public health emergency (PHE) is active. READ MORE About CareVoyant For over 30 years, CareVoyant has been a leading provider of cloud-based integrated home care software that can support multiple lines of service – Home Care, Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical, and Home Health – under a Single System of Record. CareVoyant functions – Intake, Scheduling, Clinical with Mobile options, Financial, Secure Messaging, Notification, Reporting, and Dashboards – streamline workflow, meet regulatory requirements, improve quality of care, optimize reimbursement and bring operational efficiency. For more information, please visit CareVoyant.com or call us at 1-888-463-6797. Schedule a Discussion with CareVoyant