EVV Time Entry
21st Century Cures Act · §12006

Time capture that
never loses a shift

Caregivers clock in and out in seconds — with a signal or without one. Coordinators see exactly what needs attention. Nobody goes unpaid because an app refused a GPS reading.

The EVV Time Entry mobile app showing an employer selector, a shift timer reading Not clocked in, a large Clock in button, and a link to add a past time entry.
Six ways to capture a visit

One method never fits everybody

A rural home with no cell coverage. A participant with no landline. A worker whose phone died. Each needs a different answer, and a product that offers only one excludes people.

Mobile app

GPS-verified clock in and out in seconds, in English or Spanish.

Offline capture

No signal? The punch is recorded on the spot and sent when you reconnect — still GPS-verified, still counts.

Telephony (IVR)

Call in and out from the client’s landline. Caller ID verifies the location.

Fixed device (FOB)

A sealed unit in the home shows an 8-digit code. Read it, enter it later, from anywhere.

Scheduling

Optional by design. Required for agencies, never forced on self-direction.

Multiple languages

English and Spanish today, with text and icons on every control.

The rule everything is built around

A punch is never refused

Read the app-store reviews of the incumbent EVV products and the same complaint appears over and over: the app would not let someone record their time, so they worked unpaid.

So if location is unavailable — permission denied, no fix in time, services switched off — the time is still recorded, the entry is flagged for review, and the caregiver is asked why while they still remember. The visit reaches a coordinator with an explanation attached instead of arriving as a mystery a week later.

What the coordinator sees
No location
Device permission was off
Entered manually
Worked without a signal
Address given by worker
Attested, not verified
Verified
GPS fix at both ends
Why the modality matters

Every fallback is a percentage point

States score providers on the share of visits captured electronically. A visit re-typed from memory does not count. A visit captured offline, phoned in, or read from a fixed device does.

80%

Texas minimum compliance

85%

Pennsylvania minimum

90%

New York minimum

0

Punches refused for a bad GPS reading

Self-direction

Most EVV systems were not built for this

In self-direction the participant decides who works, when, and where. Software that assumes an agency gets worked around — and the workarounds become the compliance problem.

No required schedules

The Cures Act does not require them. Participants arrange hours directly.

No geofencing

People go into the community. A boundary around a home turns ordinary life into exceptions.

The participant approves

They are the employer. The approval belongs to them.

Live-in exemptions

83% of surveyed FMS entities wanted live-in caregivers exempt. None wanted it required.

One login, several employers

Workers switch between participants without a second account.

Corrections need agreement

Adjust someone’s hours and they are asked to confirm.

Read the self-direction detail