The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. August 23, 2023
Video: Tips to choose software for Private Duty Nursing
Private Duty Nursing is different from your traditional home health as it requires skilled care for medically fragile patients. The care is typically provided in longer shifts from 8 to 12 hours and for a limited number of patients over a longer period of time. In the Private Duty Nursing field, the nurse or LPN gets to know the patient as a person and can really become quite attached to their patient. The care provided can be in multiple settings such as the patient's home, school, or even a group home setting.
The unique nature of private duty nursing necessitates specific software features.
The Importance of Choosing the Right Clearinghouse for your Agency
There are many tasks and processes involved when capturing patient demographics and following the information through to clean claim submission. Streamlining intake and billing functions are essential to your Home Health Care operations. The use of the right Clearinghouse will help to meet your end goals of achieving operational efficiency.
Together with Waystar, CareVoyant's Home Healthcare software streamlines your workflows, empower your team to be more productive, and help your organization collect more revenue, more quickly.
Benefits of Documenting Care at Patients' Home for Home Health Care Agencies
Home Health Care Agencies should provide easy-to-use and intuitive tools to clinicians and caregivers to enable them to complete the documentation at the point of care. Effective clinical documentation improves the agency's operational efficiency while enhancing the quality of care, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and employee satisfaction.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Home Health Grouper updated to include new codes coming Oct. 1
CMS released the home health grouper Aug. 16 containing acceptable primary diagnoses and the high comorbidity and low comorbidity adjustments for the new FY2024 codes — set to take effect Oct. 1.
The grouper also contains a listing of codes that will lose their primary diagnosis clinical designation effective Oct. 1.
Home-Based Care Providers Break Down ‘Unintended Consequences’ Of CMS’ Proposed Medicaid Rule
A proposed rule from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) – which would require at least 80% of Medicaid reimbursement for home- and community-based services go toward worker compensation – received over 2,100 submissions during its public comment period.
Altarum: Home health spending grew by 12.2% year-over-year in June
As national health spending rose by 5% in June, home health experienced the highest spending growth of subsectors, at 12.2% year-over-year during the month, according to Altarum’s Health Sector Economic Indicators brief for August.
Upcoming Events
Arizona In Home Care Association Annual Conference
Chaparral Conference Center at Embassy Suites - Hilton Scottsdale Resort - August 25
Texas Association for Home Care & Hospice Annual Conference
Grand Hyatt Riverwalk Hotel in San Antonio, TX, August 30 - 31
Final Preview of the 18th Annual User Conference
Rolling Meadows, IL, September 6
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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.
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