The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. July 23, 2026
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.
Consumer Directed Services: Most Frequent Audit Issues and How to Avoid Them
Frequent CDS audit findings often stem from timesheet errors, EVV discrepancies, unapproved services, eligibility gaps, payroll issues, and documentation lapses. Proactive Consumer Directed Services compliance with CareVoyant integrated CDS software helps agencies prevent penalties and stay audit-ready.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Olmstead reversal puts HCBS at risk for people with disabilities, advocates say
Advocacy organizations Monday were still grappling with the Department of Justice’s decision Friday to cease enforcing guidance related to the Olmstead decision, which found that people with disabilities have a constitutional right to receive noninstitutionalized care.
HHS Defers Over $1B In Medicaid Payments, Including For Home-Based Services
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the agencies deferred over $1 billion in Medicaid payments for certain high-risk Medicaid claims in two states, including home-based services.
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