Section 12006 of the Twenty First Century Cures Act (Cures Act) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) require the State of New Jersey to begin utilizing an Electronic Visit Verification System (EVV) for all Personal Care Services (PCS) by January 1, 2021, and all Home Health Care Services (HHCS) by January 1, 2023. The Cures Act mandate requires all visits to be timestamped via an electronic verification method utilizing EVV tools to record the member, caregiver, time the service begins and ends, location of the service, date of the service and the type of service performed.
The first step to work with HHAeXchange for EVV is completing the Provider Portal Questionnaire.
The information your agency provides on the questionnaire will be used to create your provider portal with HHAeXchange.
New Jersey DMAHS is continuing its partnership with HHAeXchange as their EVV Aggregation solution to ensure the provider community complies with the Cures Act Mandate requirements. The HHAeXchange solution will focus on collecting and reporting EVV compliant data for all Home and Community based services for the New Jersey FamilyCare program. As part of the New Jersey FamilyCare EVV program initiative, we will need to gather more information from your provider agency.
The first step is to fill out the New Jersey Home Health Provider Portal Questionnaire found below.
NJ Home Health Provider Enrollment Form
This questionnaire is designed to capture information about your provider agency necessary for New Jersey Home Health, as part of the effort to implement methods of collecting and reporting EVV compliant data for all personal care services.
We understand that each MCO has offered their own solution to participating providers, and you may already have an enterprise EVV solution in place to help you be compliant. In connection with all New Jersey MCOs and the New Jersey FamilyCare program, this survey will allow us to understand your choice for EVV data collection and provide the best viable option for your agency. Below you will find more information on each method of EVV data collection.
Your provider agency plays a vital role in the success of our EVV program. As part of your participation with New Jersey FamilyCare, you have multiple options provided to you to ensure EVV compliance:
HHAeXchange Overview (applicable to ALL providers):
Information Sessions were held for all providers to provide them with key dates and details about the implementation, including key workflow changes, system benefits, and next steps. Please refer to the links below to access videos and presentations from the Provider Info Sessions, held via webinar in June 2022.
If you chose Option 2 on the survey – (I want to use the free HHAeXchange EVV solution for all New Jersey Payers), below are some of the benefits you will see by utilizing our solution:
Please Click Here for Training Webinars
Therefore, to ensure that the provider community complies with the Cures Act mandate requirements, New Jersey Home Health Care Fee for Service (FFS) providers must utilize EVV and be fully integrated by June 24, 2024. Providers that are currently servicing managed care enrolled members will not need to make changes to their current Managed Care process. However, it is essential that Providers follow the steps below when servicing DMAHS FFS members. To achieve this, New Jersey will continue its partnership with HHAeXchange as its EVV Aggregation solution. We understand that some agencies may have an enterprise EVV solution already in place to help you be compliant. Our intention is not to replace the EVV solution you have in place, but to ensure that we are able to collect the visit data for NJ FamilyCare/Medicaid programs and provide options for providers that support our members to make this process as easy as possible. As one of the options, HHAeXchange will provide a state funded EVV solution to manage EVV compliance for all members regardless of the payer. Please see the action steps below required to ensure your path to success for the implementation.
Step #1: Choosing your EVV provider selection HHAeXchange offers EVV solutions at no cost to providers and data integration options for providers who already have EVV software. Below are the options available: • Option 1 – Agencies currently without an EVV Solution: use the state funded EVV tools provided by HHAeXchange & New Jersey. • Option 2 – Agencies currently using another 3rd Party EVV Solution: use your existing EVV system, import visit data into HHAeXchange, and HHAeXchange will route visit data to New Jersey. • Option 3 – Existing providers that currently utilize the HHAeXchange provider platform will be linked with the HHCS FFS service codes in scope.
Step #2: Complete HHAeXchange Provider Portal Questionnaire We ask that you promptly complete the HHAeXchange Provider Portal Questionnaire no later than Thursday, May 16, 2024. This is required for HHAeXchange to understand which EVV option you are selecting and how visit data will ultimately be aggregated for New Jersey. We will continue to follow up until this is complete. Please note, the questionnaire only needs to be completed once.
The questionnaire link can be found here: hhaexchange.com/njhhsurvey
Step #3: Register & attend an Information Session HHAeXchange has held Information Sessions beginning May, 2024. You can review the Information Session Recording here.
Have Questions? If you have questions or need help regarding EVV HHCS FFS implementation, please feel free to contact [email protected], for Manage Care Organization related question please contact [email protected], and questions for HHAEX contact [email protected] or visit us at hhaexchange.com/nj-home-health.
EDI Provider Rebilling Job Aid: This job aid provides guidance to the various rebilling scenarios for EDI Providers. This aid can also be found in the provider portal resources page in the HHAeXchange support center.
(Note: This is not required for agencies using an EDI Import file to integrate with their 3rd Party Agency Management System) To assist organizations with a large census of Caregivers, HHAeXchange has created a Caregiver Bulk Import tool to expedite the entry process. Please CLICK HERE to access the Caregiver Bulk Import Process Guide, which provides instructions for how to:
Thank you for your participation in working with HHAeXchange on the Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) project for your agency. Note, this process applies specifically for providers that chose option 1, found on the “Overview” tab above. Below you will find information about the general requirements and steps to take to successfully integrate your 3rd Agency Management System with HHAeXchange. To integrate between your 3rd Party Agency Management System and HHAX, providers will be required to comply with both the business requirements and technical specifications listed below. Upon review of the documents below, please initiate contact with HHAX to begin the integration process Initial steps EDI providers should follow:
EDI API Webinar
Click here to review the detailed FAQ document in regard to the NJ DMAHS implementation which will provide you with more insight on the program, patient placement, billing, EVV, Communications, as well as EDI and other functionalities.
What is HHAeXchange?
HHAeXchange is the premiere Homecare Management Software company for the Medicaid non-skilled LTSS population. We are the leaders in connecting payers and homecare agency providers to enable more collaboration, communication, and workflow efficiencies.
What are the benefits of the HHAeXchange Portal?
Ease of billing
Efficient communication
Free tools
What if we would like to use HHAeXchange’s free EVV System?
Through the HHAeXchange Portal, New Jersey DMAHS is offering free telephony for clock-in and clock-out functionality, including capturing completed plan of care duties. Each agency who has indicated they’d like to use HHAeXchange’s free EVV system will be set up with a toll-free 800 number to provide to their caregivers. A caregiver will also be given the option to download the free HHAeXchange Mobile App available for both iPhone and Android users that can be used to clock-in and clock-out, review patient information and visit information.
How will the free HHAeXchange EVV System work?
What if we have an EVV System that we’d like to keep?
It is simple to connect your existing EVV system with your payer(s), through the HHAeXchange Portal. Ensure that you’ve completed the survey, and review the EDI welcome packet. Upon reviewing the welcome packet, please submit a ticket to the HHAX EDI support email at: [email protected] with the subject ‘NJ EVV’. The HHAeXchange Integrations Team will coordinate with you to create an interface to process for your existing EVV visits. If my payer(s) plans to utilize or is currently utilizing the HHAeXchange portal, what information will my payer(s) send to my agency through the HHAeXchange Portal? Your payer(s) will be sending new placements, authorizations, and all communications through the HHAeXchange Portal. Additional information may be sent as deemed necessary by the payer.
How will the HHAeXchange Portal bill payer(s)?
All claims will be created through the HHAeXchange Portal and sent electronically via an 837 eBilling file. Agencies will then receive an 835 eRemittance file back into the HHAeXchange Portal.
Can I check my claims before submitting them to the payer through the HHAeXchange portal?
Yes. The HHAeXchange Portal provides a Prebilling Claims Scrubbing module designed to ensure that your claims are compliant with the authorization and the payer contract.
Can I schedule my caregivers through the HHAeXchange Portal?
Yes. You’ll be able to schedule your caregivers through the HHAeXchange Portal either by creating schedules based on the authorization provided by the payer, or through automatic creation of schedules based on EVV data imported into the HHAeXchange Portal from your 3rd party EVV system.
How will I be trained on the HHAeXchange Portal?
The person within your organization that filled out the survey will receive more information to identify super users and for training planning.
Can I import and export data into the HHAeXchange Portal?
Processes for importing and exporting data from the HHAeXchange Portal can be found on this page under the “EDI PROCESS” tab.
Provider Services in Scope: Please see below all the provider services in scope for this implementation. Service codes are broken out into three cohorts, with Cohorts 1 and 2 going live on July 18, 2022.
Cohort 1(Skilled Nursing Services) and Cohort 2 (Therapies)