The Home Health Care Wire
Your source for CareVoyant and industry news. August 6, 2026
Solve Home Care Intake Bottlenecks
Intake bottlenecks slow referrals into active care, cost revenue, and delay treatment, and federal guidelines call for home health care to start within two days of discharge. CareVoyant centralizes referrals, automates eligibility and authorization checks, digitizes forms, and connects intake, clinical, and scheduling teams on one platform to turn referrals into care faster.
The Hidden Cost of Payroll Errors: How Travel Time, Accuracy, and Caregiver Trust Drive Your Home Care Agency's 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.
Home Healthcare Industry News
Opened Floodgates: Why Current M&A Pressures Favor Home-Based Care Consolidators
High interest rates have slowed and complicated home-based care M&A, but they may also be creating a favorable buying opportunity for investors willing to enter the market now. Buyers able to absorb higher borrowing costs may find a slower and more complex dealmaking landscape — one where compliance has become a critical screening tool, particularly in Medicaid-funded care.
Sitting down with CMS
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is pummeling the home care industry — home health, hospice and Medicaid home- and community-based services— with a level of scrutiny and enforcement like never before. Between the barrage of onerous regulations, a home health and hospice moratorium and the latest $1 billion Medicaid payment deferment, it doesn’t seem possible, frankly, that there are any more actions the government can take to stem fraud.
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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