The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. DECEMBER 14, 2022
Specialized Software for Private Duty Home Care
As a Home Health Care Software provider, we find ourselves with questions about the nuances of home care services. Some of the questions we get asked are:
• What is Private Duty Home Care?
• Are RNs required for Private Duty Home Care?
• How is it different from Nursing Care?
• Do you need specialized software to manage Private Duty Home Care Agencies?
The software platform will play a critical role in helping Home Health Agencies to implement OASIS-E changes. Agencies should check with their software vendors to understand their plans to accommodate OASIS-E, make sure their plan will meet the requirements, and adjust their process accordingly.
This blog reviews the functions needed to support your transition to OASIS-E.
Home Care Agencies providing Home and Community-Based Services face many challenges in implementing EVV solutions to meet CURES Act requirements. Home Care Agencies should take a holistic approach to implementing EVV solutions rather the settling for the solutions provided by the state or managed care providers. Taking an integrated approach will improve operational efficiency and the agencies' bottom line.
Home Healthcare Industry News
CMS Proposes Rule to Expand Access to Health Information and Improve the Prior Authorization Process
CMS is committed to strengthening access to quality care and making it easier for clinicians to provide that care,” said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “The prior authorization and interoperability proposals we are announcing today would streamline the prior authorization process and promote health care data sharing to improve the care experience across providers, patients, and caregivers – helping us to address avoidable delays in patient care and achieve better health outcomes for all.
Staffing, regulations and reimbursement among top challenges
A new report by KLAS Research, Home-Based Post-Acute Care 2022, looks at the current challenges home care is facing. KLAS Research interviewed 88 home-based care leaders, with 66% identifying staffing as a challenge. Burnout and difficult work environments were named as contributing factors.
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 based services, including Home Care, Private Duty Nursing, Private Duty Non-Medical, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), Home Health, Pediatric Home Care, and Outpatient Therapy at Home.
CareVoyant functions – Intake, Authorization Management, Scheduling, Clinical with Mobile options, eMAR/eTAR, Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), Billing/AR, Secure Messaging, Notification, Reporting, and Dashboards – streamline workflow, meet regulatory requirements, improve quality of care, optimize reimbursement, improve operational efficiency and agency bottom line.
For more information, please visit CareVoyant.com or call us at 1-888-463-6797.