North Carolina home care margin recovery.
You delivered the visits.
In North Carolina, a PCS claim that does not match the EVV visit and the authorization denies with no matching data, and the filing clock is 365 days from the date of service on fee for service and, for dates of service on or after July 1, 2023 on Standard Plans and July 1, 2024 on Tailored Plans, 365 days on managed care too. Confirm the number against your plan's own provider manual. Reeve reads your own billing export, right in your browser, and shows you the authorized, delivered, billed, and paid columns side by side, so the gaps have a record attached.
Every dollar of personal care in North Carolina passes through four states of being, and they do not always agree.
The payer approved a number of units or per diems. In North Carolina that is a PCS authorization under Clinical Coverage Policy 3L for in-home care or 3L-1 for congregate, or a waiver auth under CAP/DA, CAP/C, or Innovations. NC Medicaid Direct handles fee-for-service. Standard Plans, Tailored Plans, and LME-MCOs handle the rest. The clock and the ceiling both live here.
The people who deliver the care worked the visit and it landed in Electronic Visit Verification. North Carolina is open EVV, but the visit data still has to route to the correct aggregator: Sandata for NC Medicaid Direct FFS, CareBridge for Healthy Blue, HHAeXchange for the Standard and Tailored Plans and the LME-MCOs. Either way, the visit becomes an accepted EVV transaction, or it does not.
A claim went out to NCTracks or the health plan with a Medicaid ID, date of service, NPI, a HCPCS code, its modifiers, and a unit count. In-home PCS rides on 99509 with HA or HB, historically in 15-minute units. Congregate PCS uses HC, TT, SC, or HH and moved to a per diem rate effective April 1, 2025. Small miscounts on the 15-minute lines and per-diem-versus-unit confusion on the congregate lines both add up fast.
The claim matched, cleared its other edits, and remitted. Or it hit a mismatch and denied with no matching data.
The leaks live in the gaps between those four columns, and North Carolina has two rules that turn a gap into lost money: the EVV claim-to-visit hard match denies any line where the service code, modifiers, or units do not agree with the accepted visit and the authorization, and the 365-day filing window runs from the date of service on fee for service and on managed care alike, so a line that sat for a year is gone on either side. Source: NC Medicaid provider playbook prompt payment fact sheet, https://medicaid.ncdhhs.gov/provider-playbook-prompt-payment-fact-sheet/download. Confirm against your plan's own provider manual.
- 01Delivered but never billed
- 02EVV visit that does not match the claim on code or modifier
- 03In-home line billed as units when the auth was per diem, or vice versa
- 04Denied for no matching data and never reworked
- 05Aged past the 365-day filing window
Every number is illustrative and synthetic. Because your own export may not carry a rate for every code, findings on this page are expressed in hours, units, and records to check against your own rate sheet, never in dollars Reeve made up.
21 in-home PCS claims paid clean this quarter where the accepted EVV visit shows more delivered 15-minute units than the claim billed. Example: a visit accepted for 12 units of 99509 HA, claim billed 10. The claim matched and paid, so nothing flagged, but 2 units per visit across 21 visits is 42 units of delivered care that never turned into a claim line. Records attached, ready to check against your contracted rate.
15 denied claim lines where the modifier on the claim does not match the modifier on the accepted EVV visit or the authorization. Example: the visit and auth carry HA, the claim submitted with HB. Twelve of the fifteen are inside the plan appeal window and reworkable today. The other three are past it.
3 clients where delivered and accepted EVV units exceed the authorized PCS units on file. This is not recoverable, and Reeve will not pretend it is. It surfaces separately as over-delivery, care the people who deliver it gave that was never authorized, so you can see the exposure and fix the auth going forward rather than quote it as money owed.
19 delivered-and-accepted EVV visits with no matching claim found in the export, sorted by date of service against the payer's filing clock. 15 are still inside the 365-day window and billable now, and 9 of those are inside 90 days of the wall. 4 are past 365 days and gone on fee for service and on the plans alike. The list is ranked by days remaining.
5 congregate PCS lines dated on or after April 1, 2025 that were billed with a unit count instead of the new per diem, or with the wrong congregate modifier among HC, TT, SC, or HH. Each one is a denial waiting to happen or one that already did, with the specific visit and claim record paired so your biller can see exactly which field to correct.
Why an annual audit or the EMR alone misses this.
A once-a-year audit looks back over twelve months. In North Carolina the money has a 365-day clock on fee for service and on managed care alike. By the time an annual review names a denied line, that window is usually spent. By the time a yearly review reaches a denied line, the plan appeal window has usually closed.
The EMR is not built to catch it either. Your EMR knows what it billed. The EVV aggregator, whether Sandata, CareBridge, or HHAeXchange, knows what visit was accepted. The remittance knows what paid. Those three live in three places, and the mismatch is in the seam between them. A clean match shows green in your billing screen even when the visit carried more units than the claim, because the claim matched the units it declared, not the units delivered.
The gap only shows when you put the accepted EVV transaction, the claim, and the remittance in the same view and read them together, per payer, per clock. That is the one thing Reeve does. It reads across the seam.
That is what Reeve reads for in North Carolina: what your EVV aggregator accepted, what the authorization allowed, what you billed, and what actually paid, read against each other rather than audited for rate.
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The recovery lane. Care you delivered and never billed, units short of what was authorized, lines paid under the published rate.
Everything in Collect, plus the exposure lane. Retired codes, authorizations at the end of their period, care delivered past what was approved.
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