The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. January 25, 2022
Overtime Pay for Home Care Workers – Implementation and Tracking
Even though these rules have now been in vogue for a while, most private duty nursing and non-medical agencies have to strike a careful balance between the high quality and continuity of care they provide and minimizing the overtime cost.
With falling reimbursements from third-party payers, and trying to strike a balance between expectations and quality of service for private pay patients, most home care agencies are trying to adapt their business models to limit caregivers to 40 hours a week.
Technology has a significant role in improving the effectiveness of agency operations. By trusting in a leading home care software such as CareVoyant Home Care Software, agencies can effectively manage their employees and their time delivering care. With the rise of hospital-at-home and SNF-at-home care delivery models and the increasing relevance of telehealth, the choice of a scalable and configurable homecare software that can address the needs of nurses, operations managers, patients, and their families, becomes crucial.
It has never been more challenging to be a home health operator. At the same time, there has never been more upside. The pandemic helped accelerate the growth of home-based care, and we think that trend will only continue into 2022 and beyond.
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NAHC’s Bill Dombi: Horizontal Integration, Workforce Innovation to Accelerate in 2022
The end of 2021 brought a handful of key home health policy issues to a temporary conclusion, including the congressionally secured delay to Medicare sequestration. But the industry still has a long list of other priorities that it’s hoping to carry out in Washington, D.C. – starting with Choose Home.
How COVID-19 Reinforced the Important Role of Home Health Care
Hospitals got much of the attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, but as inpatient beds became scarce and people sought other options for care, home health agencies rose to the challenge, underscoring the benefits in-home care brings and highlighting the important role this industry segment will play in the future.
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