Electronic Visit Verification (EVV) is Required for Billing Home Services to Medicaid
If you deliver services that are paid for by Medicaid, you need to comply with the EVV mandate in the 21st Century Cures Act. If you have a beloved system for managing your home care home health or Long-Term-Services-and-Supports (LTSS) for older or disabled folks, you either need a new system or a way to connect your existing system to an EVV partner. Ankota would like to be your EVV partner.
EVV Integration Models
Ankota can integrate with your existing system in a number of ways, as follows:- Home Health: Nurses, Therapists and CNAs will document their visit notes in their home health EMR, but they'll use the Ankota app to clock-in and out of their Medicaid visits. Ankota will verify EVV compliance and forward the visits to the aggregator.
- Home Health System without a mobile app: For a business with a scheduling system but NOT a mobile app, clients, caregivers and staff will be sync'd with the Ankota API (or a customer interface), Then the caregivers will clock in and out using the Ankota app or telephony, then visits will be reviewed and submitted by Ankota.
- Home Health System with a Mobile App and/or Telephony: If the customer's system has the ability to collect EVV attributes (exact times and locations), Ankota will receive the completed visit information, perform EVV checks and submit to the aggregator(s).
What Ankota Handles So You Don't Have To
Adding EVV shouldn't mean retraining your whole office or giving up the system your team relies on. Your EMR, scheduling, and billing stay where they are, and Ankota takes care of the EVV work in the background.- Simple clock-in and clock-out for caregivers. Caregivers verify visits with the Ankota mobile app, which captures the exact time and location, or by telephony when a smartphone isn't an option.
- Your data stays in sync. Clients, caregivers, and staff flow from your system to Ankota through our API or a customer interface, so no one has to enter the same information twice.
- EVV checks before anything is submitted. Ankota reviews each visit for the required EVV data points and flags missing or mismatched information so your team can fix it before it reaches the state.
- Submission to the aggregator. Verified visits are sent to your state's EVV aggregator, helping you stay compliant with the 21st Century Cures Act and avoid delays in getting paid by Medicaid.
- A partner who knows EVV. Ankota builds EVV software for home care, home health, and disability services providers, so you get a team that understands the mandate, not just a data connection.
