One bad audit. One clawback letter. One nightly-news segment. That's the difference between a 15-year agency and a 6-month wind-down. VisitLock is the floor under your operation.
In every state agency we've sat with, the same five patterns surface — sometimes from a single bad actor, more often from drift across a 60-aide roster. The good news: each one has a signature, and each one is catchable.
An aide signs in for a patient she never saw — at the desk, from her car, or in a hospital waiting room two cities away. The signature flow that came with the EVV system rubber-stamps it. The claim pays. Months later, a complaint surfaces, and you're explaining yourself to the state.
Maria's phone clocks in at 2pm. So does Maria's phone, again, at 2:05pm — fifteen miles away. Same login, same password, two patients. The OIG calls this "impossible travel," and it's the single most common state-level audit finding we see in PCS.
Mock-location apps are free in the Play Store. A motivated aide can place themselves on the patient's porch from a parking lot four miles away — the EVV system records a clean "GPS verified" on the claim. State auditors are getting better at catching this. By then, the clawback is already in motion.
The aide really did show up. The aide really did do the work. The aide really was on the porch for 28 minutes — and the claim says 90. In a 50-aide agency at 12 visits a week, even small drift on the clock-out side adds up to six figures of preventable risk.
The aide of record quits. Her brother takes over the route — same login, same patients, different person. The patient may not even notice. The state will, eventually, in the form of an exclusion letter that names your agency.
"We replaced our signature workflow in nine days. The first audit-edit case our state surfaced was caught by VisitLock the same week."