Arkansas EVV requirements: Dec. 1 home health

Arkansas EVV milestones

Each row names the DHS paper that gives its date:

On small screens the right-hand columns are cut off; scroll the table to see them. Rows checked on November 9, 2026.

Which Arkansas visits fall under EVV

§ 145.100 of the Arkansas Medicaid Provider Manual, dated January 1, 2024 in its section header, describes an EVV system as “a telephone, computer, or other technology-based system” that verifies visits. It reaches personal care, attendant care, respite and home health given “during an in-home visit” under the State Plan, the PASSE plans, the ARChoices waiver or self-direction.

Six data elements and the settings outside EVV

The manual lists six elements: the service, the beneficiary, the date, the place, the worker, and when the visit began and finished. Services given to more than one person through a shift in a group home, assisted living facility, hospital, nursing facility or other congregate setting fall outside it, as do services to a student in a public school, and the home health FAQ says private duty nursing is not affected. No Arkansas paper read sets out a live-in caregiver rule.

Two vendors and the PASSE plans

Personal care runs on AuthentiCare; home health on Sandata, by way of HHAeXchange. The home health FAQ adds that the PASSE plans use their own vendors: HHAeXchange for Arkansas Total Care and Empower, and CareBridge for Summit and CareSource. Self-directed workers log visits in the Time4Care app or by phone, per the DAABHS self-direction page.

Edits, reason codes and corrective plans

The DMS EVV information page treats edited or hand-entered visits as falling short of EVV and as a fallback for times the usual methods are unavailable. The AuthentiCare quick reference guide, a vendor paper DHS posts, asks for a reason code on every edit and allows edits for 60 days after the service. The policy memo, effective July 1, 2026, asks a provider above the ten percent threshold for a corrective action plan.

What the Arkansas papers have not settled

The ten percent threshold appears in the July 2026 memo and the enforcement paper, but the memo says the manual section carrying it is still to be published, and the Section I copy read does not show it yet. The DHS manual edit calculation paper places the threshold in § 145.200(J), which in that copy is the clause on DHS review of EVV records. Personal care dates also differ: the July 2020 bulletin points to January 1, 2021, while an August 9, 2024 letter says personal care EVV reached all providers in 2022, and no paper read says which date governs. The Arkansas Register filing and the current Section II manuals went unread.

LockProof and Arkansas EVV, side by side

Under § 145.300 of the Arkansas Medicaid Provider Manual, dated January 1, 2024, a claim may be rejected or recouped when its visit was not verified by EVV. Families paying for care themselves, or relatives watching a parent’s aide, can still keep a photo log of visits with LockProof. Look over photo apps an Arkansas agency can pair with EVV, or follow one visit from link to sealed photo.

Arkansas and its neighbors

Fifty states and DC appear together in a table of EVV requirements by state. To the north, Missouri’s EVV page covers its Sandata aggregator, and to the west, Oklahoma’s page covers AuthentiCare there.