{
  "slug": "evv-phantom-visits",
  "title": "The visit was billed. Nobody came.",
  "summary": "EVV records a phone call or a phone's location. It does not record a caregiver. That gap is why phantom home care visits survived the Cures Act mandate.",
  "lede": "Electronic visit verification was mandated to stop Medicaid paying for home care visits that never happened. It records a phone call, or a phone's location, or a code read from a device on a wall. None of those is a caregiver, and that gap is the whole story.",
  "date": "2026-09-10",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": [
    "electronic visit verification",
    "EVV fraud",
    "home care",
    "Medicaid",
    "phantom visits",
    "21st Century Cures Act",
    "presence receipt"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/EVV%20Phantom%20Visits/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/evv-phantom-visits.html",
  "wordcount": 4835,
  "related": [
    "identity-continuity-hire-to-offboard",
    "identity-failure-map",
    "agent-identity-healthcare"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}