The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. May 1, 2025
Master Home Health Clinical Documentation for Medicare
Up to 30% of Medicare claims for home health services are denied due to improper documentation. From OASIS-E assessments to verifying physician face-to-face encounters, every piece of clinical documentation must align with strict Medicare home health guidelines. Failing to meet these standards can lead to denied claims, audits, and compliance risks.
Learn how home health agencies can improve compliance with Medicare documentation requirements through best practices, training, and EMR optimization.
With so many moving parts, agencies can benefit from integrated Home Care Scheduling Software. The right Home Care Scheduling Software will offer real-time notifications of schedule changes, intelligent scheduling, and internal communication tools. It will also be integrated with authorizations and billing for streamlined regulatory compliance, helping home care agencies achieve operational efficiency.
Discover the must-have scheduling features that ensure efficient home care management, from automated scheduling to real-time updates and alerts.
Patient safety and quality of care should be central to any home care agency’s mission. But juggling safety measures can be tricky – it takes a fine balance of training clinicians on best practices and procedures, keeping up to date with the latest practices, learning each patient’s unique case file, knowing drug interactions, and so many more procedural considerations. According to CMS guidelines for home health, maintaining patient safety and real-time documentation are top priorities in post-acute care settings.
Having the right tools at the point of care is critical to increasing patient safety. The right EMR Home Care Software can help agencies get the job done with just 7 advanced features.
Home Healthcare Industry News
The flexible work schedule … What today’s candidates want
Flexible schedules have shifted from a “nice thing” to a “must have” for many job candidates. They are placing a high premium on flexibility, especially the young gig workers.
Home-Based Care Dealmaking Outpaces Other Health Care Sectors
The home-based care industry saw 18 completed transactions in Q1, according to a new PitchBook analysis.
ABOUT CAREVOYANT
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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