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Home Care Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) – Think Beyond January 1st, 2020
The 21st Century Cures Act provides the impetus for home care and, soon, home health agencies to adopt Electronic Visit Verification (EVV). Beyond complying with legislation, most providers recognize that EVV and other elements of digital transformation are necessary for business.
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CODE RED: Emergency Preparedness Rule set to impact Medicaid business
In 2016, there were 46 “major disasters” and another 50 fire-related national emergencies, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). There were also “emergency declarations” across another seven states in the wake not only of Hurricane Matthew but contaminated water in Michigan and severe storms in both Missouri and Louisiana.
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A Window on the Future of Home Care Market: Implications for the Mandatory use of Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)
A window of opportunity has arrived. Section 12006 of the Obama administration’s 21st Century CURES Act ushered in what most in the home care services industry expected: measures to corral unchecked and sometimes fraudulent billing practices to Medicaid. That came largely in the form of one newly mandatory requirement: Electronic Visit Verification (EVV), which allows…
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Final Overtime Rule May Affect Home Care
The US Department of Labor has issued the final overtime rule, effective December 1, 2016. The rule automatically extends overtime pay protections to over 4 million workers within its first year of implementation. The process of updating overtime regulations began with President Obama’s Presidential Memorandum in 2014, instructing the Department of Labor to look at…
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Medicaid Telehealth Reimbursement Guidelines
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Why Your Home Care Software Solution Should Reside in the Country you Provide Care
5 Considerations Why Your Cloud Based Home Care Software Solution Should Reside in the Country Where you Provide Care Pew Research Centre, an authority on measuring personal information and privacy, routinely polls US audiences and reports that Health Care and medication information ranks second behind only a social security number in terms of ‘very sensitive’…
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