Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Medical Assistance Services
 
Board
Board of Medical Assistance Services
 
chapter
Standards Established and Methods Used to Assure High Quality Care [12 VAC 30 ‑ 60]
Action Electronic Visit Verification
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 3/21/2020
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1/29/20  3:42 pm
Commenter: Nelson Davis

Please exempt live-ins
 

It is very difficult to hire and maintain qualified caregivers and nurses due to low pay rates, no benefits, and now add a complicated, burdensome app for them to navigate.  Much worse is to involve the live in caregiver with EVV, who is on 24/7 without a payment for all the hours over the allotment.  There is so much live-ins do without payment: calls, paperwork, meetings, deadlines, etc.  How are they to remember to draw a line in the middle of their work to clock out?  

Parents of children and adults with disabilities are operating with multiple burdens and under extreme stress to provide the most beneficial and loving care, now, without the addition of EVV.

It is a complicated, error ridden application, with an impossible clock in/clock out requirement for a 24/7 responsibility.  To be readily available at a moment's notice for a myriad of predictable and unpredictable situations during the day and night, and be burdened with the EVV complications is going to be extremely stressful, if not impossible.

 

CommentID: 78963