The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. October 8, 2026
The Invisible ROI of Home Care Mileage Tracking: How CV Miles Cuts Overhead
The IRS raised its 2026 business mileage rate to 76 cents on July 1, and federal law counts drive time between clients as paid hours, so every extra mile costs your agency twice. CV Miles uses GPS-verified EVV visit data to calculate travel time and distance automatically and send them straight to payroll. A 50-caregiver agency that cuts travel by just 5% could save about $30,000 a year.
3 Cost-Effective Staffing Models for Private Duty Agencies
Labor costs keep climbing while reimbursement stays flat, and most private duty agencies respond by cutting hours instead of fixing the scheduling and data gaps that actually drive overtime. Three staffing models lower cost per shift without lowering care quality: core team plus flex pool, acuity-based tiering, and predictive scheduling. None of them work on a spreadsheet. All of them depend on scheduling, authorization, and payroll running off the same data.
Tools to Improve Communication in Pediatric Home Care
Pediatric home care depends on constant information sharing between rotating nurses, therapists, office staff, and parents. Five tool categories close the gaps: HIPAA-compliant messaging, family portals, mobile point-of-care apps, unified clinical documentation, and EVV-linked scheduling. Running these in one integrated pediatric home care platform gives families a single, current view of their child's care.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Paul Kusserow On The ‘Next Version Of Home Health’
The industry must evolve beyond a traditional, visit-based clinical model into one that mixes skilled care with family caregiver support, technology and value-based accountability, Kusserow, CEO and executive chairman of Careforth and chairman of Elara Caring, said during HHCN’s FUTURE conference in August.
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