Home Health Software Tips

  Strategies for Successful Scheduling in Home Health Care Agencies Effective Scheduling is a make-or-break workflow function in your home care agency. This blog will give you the top tips and best practices to make your scheduling strategy efficient and effective. Tip #1.   Use home health software to match clients to caregivers Most home health software systems include features that providers can use to schedule clients based on a variety of attributes. It’s important to match clients by: ●        Condition specific-training ●        Frequency/Amount of visits already completed with that client ●        Distance to the client ●         Personality ●        Pet preferences ●          Transportation ●        Smoking Treat your clients according to their individual needs. There are those clients that will need a caregiver that can take them to appointments. Others, in turn, may just need caregivers who can prepare meals and conduct minor household tasks. Understanding

  How Your Home Care Agency Can Work Toward A Wider Payer Source Mix Without Sacrificing Profits We all know that it’s not good to put all of our eggs into one basket, and the home care industry is no exception. Here are some tips to help your agency work toward a wider payer source mix. There are a variety of payer sources that you can incorporate into your mix, including the VA, Medicaid Waivers, Medicare Advantage, long-term care insurance, worker’s compensation, among others. You can only afford to work with so many without losing profits, so what can you do now? We’ll outline what you can do in this article. 1.    Call your local government and representatives about the need to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for your services. Big changes are not made overnight, but there are actions you can take today to impact your tomorrow. The American Rescue Plan that passed earlier in 2021 increased funding for home and community-based services by ten percent, and you need to ur