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Streamlining Home Care and I/DD Agency Payroll
Home care and ID/D agencies need to guarantee their employees get paid on time and for the correct amount of time each and every week. It takes both the company and the employee to ensure accurate and timely payments. Employees must submit accurate timesheets on time...
Mobile Electronic Visit Verification – A Game Changer For Capturing Home Care Visit Data
With the 21st Century Cures Act EVV™ mandate for Home Health and Personal Care Services, it is important that agencies have a quick, easy, and reliable way to confirm visit data at the point of service. Because landlines have become a thing of the past and are no...
Maximizing Your Home Care Agency’s Performance with Revenue Cycle Management
Home care and I/DD agencies continue to be faced with new challenges – mandated costs that need to be managed, the Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)™ mandate, value-based care and payments, consumer-directed care, provider consolidation, and increased payer...
Improve Home Care Employee Productivity and Retention With the Use of Technology
Home care organizations simply cannot run without people. Without your employees hard work, dedication, and commitment to patients, it would be impossible difficult to run a successful home care or I/DD business. For provider agencies, both the office and field staff...
The challenge of hiring and retaining home health caregivers
There is no doubt that having qualified, hardworking and dedicated employees is key to operating a successful business. Recruiting and maintaining staff in the home health care industry has been a real struggle, resulting in a high turnover rate. (Source 1)...
Point-of-Care (POC): Is it the Right Move for Your Home Care Agency?
Do your clinicians and field staff currently use paper forms and assessments as a means of documentation for patient visits? If so, are you struggling with documentation accuracy and timely submissions? If you answered yes, you might want to start looking for a...
Revenue Cycle Management: The Heartbeat of a Successful Home Care and ID/D Agency
In order for a provider to give exceptional care, it must be profitable enough to attract and retain a qualified team, develop valuable programming for its client base, and budget for unforeseen circumstances. Improving revenue cycle management and identifying areas...
Keeping up with new home care regulations
With over 12,600 home care agencies servicing more than 5 million Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries nationwide, it is important that there’s visibility into the services provided to ensure plan of care compliance. (source1) The 21st Century Cures Act, signed...
Simplifying the process of managing caregiver scheduling and filling available shifts
Running a home care agency is not an easy task…especially when it comes to managing your caregivers’ schedules, constant changing availability, short notice call-outs, and trying to minimize overtime pay. Historically, finding available (not to mention compatible)...
Revenue Cycle Management: The Heartbeat of a Successful Home Care and ID/D Agency
In order for a provider to give exceptional care, it must be profitable enough to attract and retain a qualified team, develop valuable programming for its client base, and budget for unforeseen circumstances. Improving revenue cycle management and identifying areas...
Partnering with ID/D Providers on Service Risk Mitigation and Business Continuity
ID/D providers around the country are searching for answers as they continue responding to a rapidly-changing environment. With a focus on staff and client safety, while still offering a high quality of care, there are five ways to manage service risk mitigation and...
Outcomes of Empathy-Based Leadership
Empathy as Company Culture The definition of empathy, according to the 2019 State of Workplace Empathy Report, is the ability to understand and experience the feelings of another. Additionally, it states that empathy continues to be not only a fundamental need at a...