What is Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)?
Getting Started With Electronic Visit Verification in personal care and supportive home care services
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV)
Home care providers need effective EVV solutions as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, established to stamp out fraudulent care claims and ensure people receive the care they are promised. Every state is at a different stage in the implementation process of EVV as they work to meet this mandate for Medicaid clients. Smartcare’s intelligent EVV tools and eVerified provide a modern digital solution for staying compliant and supporting a successful home care business.
What is EVV?
Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) is a method used to verify home healthcare visits to ensure patients are not neglected and to cut down on fraudulently documented home visits. EVV is required by most states for State Medicaid providers as part of the 21st Century Cures Act.
EVV applies to care and health services rendered in the home. States are required to implement EVV for all Medicaid personal care services and home health services that require an in-home visit by a provider. Eventually, all care agencies providing care to people in their own homes will be required to operate EVV tracking.
EVV systems are secure and compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
What are the EVV requirements?
The six verification criteria to meet for EVV are:
It should be noted that there could be additional criteria required that are state-specific.
Not sure about your state? You don’t have to worry, we are here to help.
Talk with one of our experts on what the EVV requirements mean for your agency.
Benefits of Implementing EVV
Agencies that utilize EVV are seeing significant increases in efficiency and productivity because it cuts down on the amount of time spent doing the paperwork for patient care, mileage reimbursement, and tallying hours worked by each caregiver.
Switching to Smartcare’s EVV system reduces administrative errors, improves accountability, and gives agency owners and managers complete visibility of care visits in real time. Agencies using Smartcare also:
Understanding the differences between Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) and Electronic Claims Submissions (eBilling)
How does EVV work?
EVV uses technology to make sure that members and participants receive the in-home services they need. Information is sent from a mobile phone app or through voice notification from a patient’s landline.
Smartcare’s easy-to-use software has been designed to make this process simple, improving workflow and ensuring the recording of essential information about each care visit is straightforward and efficient.
Caregivers follow the simple workflow of the mobile app on their phones. In the background, EVV checks their location to the registered client’s location and uses geofencing to determine if the caregiver is indeed where they say they are to deliver care. The system records this and alerts the office if there is an issue.
Smartcare makes it simple for caregivers to record information quickly, giving them back the valuable time they need to do the job they were hired to do – caring.
Once the basic information is in, caregivers simply click to start the visit and the app automatically records the time and date. Information is secure and HIPAA-compliant. Logging out is easy with one simple click. If WiFi is spotty or unavailable, Smartcare’s Offline Mode encrypts the information and transfers later when the caregiver is back in range. On the backend, EVV data is transmitted to an aggregator and sent to Medicaid to support the claim.
What is Alternative EVV?
An alternative EVV system is an EVV data collection software system that is not provided or specified by an individual state Department of Health Services. Alternative systems are typically found in only those States that have chosen a “Closed” model (non-open market) for implementing the Medicaid EVV mandate of the 21st Century Cures Act.
In this situation, home care providers can choose to use their preferred software supplier as an alternative to the State’s EVV-chosen system.
The home care provider’s chosen EVV provider will collaborate with the state’s EVV system provider to complete testing and verify data transition.
SMART, simple and secure.
Comply with state regulations and improve caregiver retention with a seamless EVV system for home care.
Give your carers the tools they need to perform at their best and ensure you have the data you need to run a successful care agency at your fingertips.
Why Smartcare?
Smartcare’s eVerified EVV is designed and built to be a state-compliant EVV solution. Smartcare’s intuitive and easy-to-use EVV solution is used across the US by thousands of caregivers every day.
Stay compliant, stay in control, and automate workflow
That’s all there is to it – you won’t find an easier and SMARTer EVV software solution than that!
Smartcare offers much more than simple attendance recording.
Contact us today to schedule your free demo.