Arizona EVV requirements under AHCCCS

Arizona EVV, date by date

Both service lines started on the same day in 2021; one big change since was AHCCCS running its own aggregator.

Each row points to the Arizona text behind it; all were read October 29, 2026.

How AHCCCS puts it

The Arizona Medicaid EVV page opens with the start date: “AHCCCS has mandated EVV for personal care and home health services beginning January 1, 2021.” On who pays for the software, the AHCCCS announcement that the aggregator would go live October 1, 2025 says providers contract “with an EVV vendor of their choice” and carry the cost. And on live-in caregivers, the Arizona Medicaid live-in caregiver FAQ, still posted on October 29, 2026, says: “AHCCCS has decided to continue to require EVV for members in these situations” so that members get the care they need.

Open vendors, one state aggregator

Arizona’s first design, set out in September 2019, was an open vendor model built around one statewide vendor, Sandata. The Sandata arrangement ended on September 30, 2025, when its contract ran out; from October 1, 2025 AHCCCS has run the aggregator, and an agency that had used Sandata had to contract with it directly or with another vendor. The EVV 2.0 FAQ of October 2025 adds that providers cannot type visits into the aggregator themselves, and that the aggregator now checks for at least 8 minutes per 15-minute unit, up from Sandata’s 7.

What each visit records

The AHCCCS EVV page lists six items: the service, the member, the date, where the service took place, the worker, and when it started and ended. Arizona Medicaid policy manual AMPM 540, effective August 6, 2026 in its current version, adds that the member or a designee confirms the visit at the point of care or within 14 days, that every edit keeps an audit trail, and that at least two ways of verifying a visit are on offer. Paper timesheets are allowed only in five listed cases, with the date and times independently verified, for example by a time-stamp code, and go in within 21 days.

Location, and where GPS fits

Arizona Medicaid policy manual AMPM 540, in its version effective August 6, 2026, leaves GPS tracking to the provider, with a duty to tell members how and why when it is used. A device fixed in the member’s home can verify start and end times without GPS. For a visit logged from a mobile device (call type Mobile), the Arizona Medicaid visit maintenance FAQ and the data intake specification V1.7 of July 8, 2026 require latitude and longitude at sign-in and sign-out. Without the location of service, the visit maintenance FAQ says, a visit cannot be billed, with no advance approval of the place, and the AHCCCS business requirements crosswalk says Arizona EVV does not follow a worker’s movements.

The 85 percent figure

An AHCCCS webinar of February 12, 2026 calls the auto-verified share the main sign of how EVV is going, and makes an 85 percent minimum, reached in February and March 2026 and held each month through September, the bar for a 2 percent differential adjusted payment on dates of service from October 1, 2026. A provider that misses a month is removed for the rest of the contract year. That is a payment, not a penalty, and the EVV 2.0 FAQ of October 2025 said AHCCCS had set no threshold for EVV itself.

Beyond this reading

A notice of AHCCCS policies opened for public comment on May 5, 2026 would not extract to text, so its contents are unknown here. No Arizona Administrative Code rule on EVV turned up, and the Division of Developmental Disabilities’ own policy was left aside. A.R.S. § 36-2970.01 asks for an EVV system that shows whether a parent or another provider gave the care, and says nothing about GPS.

LockProof alongside Arizona EVV

Arizona visits travel to AHCCCS through the vendor each agency picks. A LockProof photo travels elsewhere, to relatives or to a client who pays privately and wants to know the visit happened. Read about using a photo record next to an EVV vendor, as well as what each caregiver photo record holds.

When it was read

This Arizona reading is dated October 29, 2026, and AHCCCS revises its policies often enough that a later text could shift part of it. More states are on the EVV state list, and Colorado, which meets Arizona at Four Corners, has its own EVV page.