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Stop Wasting Hours of Administrative Time in Home Care

Written by caretime | Jul 16, 2019 4:00:00 AM

Between making schedules, creating claims, doing payroll, and recruiting new staff, you are racking up hours of administrative time. Have you considered the amount of time spent on documentation by your clinicians? This time and therefore cost, can be cut down. First, you must track current activities. Then you can implement a way to improve on unnecessary hours spent. 

Ask your managerial staff to log hours spent on administrative activities.

  • How long did they spend filling shifts this week, month, or year?
  • What is the length of time the average claim takes? How many claims do they generate in a year?
  • What about conducting payroll? Do they look at hours logged and have to calculate totals themselves? Was your clock in/out software down one day, forcing them to manually input hours?

Ask your clinicians to log hours spent on administrative activities.

  • How long does it take to document the care given for each visit?
  • How much time does it take to access previous care given? 
  • How difficult is it for you to sign up or search for a shift?

Cut down on admin time using technology

Home care and healthcare companies often use software to streamline activities. If there is a technology that can be used to lessen the work burden on your staff, then consider implementing it. Not only are you saving time by becoming more efficient, but you are also saving money in staffing and administrative expenses. If you are using software created in the late 90s or early 2000s then you are not being as proficient as possible. Look into new software that has features you could only dream of before.

Save money and time with CareTime

CareTime is a web-based home care software company for home health, home care, hospice, and other healthcare organizations. We help you take back control of time, track caregivers, cut expenses, and generate more revenue. Our platform excels in making it easy for home care, home health administrators, and caregivers to use it. Manage point-of-care delivery with visit verification (EVV), care documentation, and maps, manage your caregivers and their schedules, bill with accuracy, produce payroll, and run reports to improve your business.

Use our schedule manager 

You will no longer need schedulers who spend all of their days calling, writing down availabilities, and filling shifts. Cut hours out of the process by using our schedule manager.

Generate claims in minutes with CareTime

Create and send electronic claims to get paid by insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and more. Batch claims can be created in an instant from all of your visit data. Process thousands of claims in just minutes!

Documentation 

Caregivers can record and document visits with ease. You can also set up questions required upon clock out to ensure care plan tasks, ADLs, etc. were completed.

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