The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. July 30, 2026
Travel Time, Payroll Accuracy & Your Home Care Bottom Line
Manual travel time tracking is a top source of payroll errors and caregiver mistrust. CareVoyant auto-calculates it from verified EVV visit data instead. Caregivers see their own hours in the Employee Portal, which builds trust and cuts disputes before they start. With wages claiming 50 to 60% of agency revenue, tighter payroll accuracy is a direct lever on your bottom line.
How Home Care Scheduling App Boosts Caregiver Productivity
A home care scheduling app boosts caregiver productivity by replacing phone calls and spreadsheets with real-time scheduling, automated alerts, and mobile care plan access. It cuts administrative burden, optimizes travel routes, and improves clinical documentation helping agencies maximize each caregiver's time while strengthening compliance and patient care.
Building a Diverse Home Care Workforce: Why It Matters
A workforce that matches your patients' languages and cultures improves safety, adherence, and trust while opening referral markets you can't reach otherwise. Roughly 37 percent of home care workers already speak limited English, so the diversity is there to harness. Pair inclusive hiring with better job quality, language-match scheduling, and real tracking, or the effort stalls.
Home Healthcare Industry News
100 lawmakers urge DOJ to retract opinion affecting HCBS for those with disabilities
In a letter last week to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the lawmakers called on the Department of Justice to rescind a June 18 opinion, which they said would undermine both the scope and enforcement of the integration mandate under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Legislation seeks to reverse VA home care funding cuts in Texas, New Mexico
Home care advocates are eyeing a proposed amendment in a major piece of legislation in the Senate. The National Defense Authorization Act’s Senate Amendment 6414, recently introduced by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), would restore funding for veterans’ home care services in Texas and New Mexico slashed by the Trump administration at the beginning of the year.
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