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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2/26/20  5:29 pm
Commenter: Karen Freewheel

EVV is wrong
 

If you are a person with a disability or a personal care attendant, direct support worker, or other caregiver, you may have heard about the looming menace of electronic visit verification. Due to lobbying from medical technology companies, notably Sandata Technologies, the 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 added a requirement that Medicaid funded personal care attendant programs implement electronic visit verification. Electronic visit verification (EVV) uses a smartphone app to verify a caregiver’s identity and the date, time, and location where personal care services were provided. The purpose is supposedly to prevent fraud, although fraud in home care services is extremely rare. Although the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has stated that GPS tracking is not required for electronic visit verification, many states have wrongly interpreted the law and have chosen to use GPS to track people with disabilities and their caregivers. This means if you have a disability and need personal care attendant services, you will be forced to disclose your exact location to the government every time your attendant clocks in and out.  This is wrong and taking us back before ADA and civil rights for the disabled.  

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