AI receptionist for home health agencies
An AI receptionist built for home health care agencies.
Agency phones carry referrals, worried families, caregiver applicants and patients asking when the nurse is coming. Leap answers in your agency's name, takes each request with the right details, and sends patient-condition calls to your on-call clinician.
Leap is an AI phone receptionist for home health and home care agencies. It answers forwarded calls in your agency's name, takes referrals with the patient's location, payer and ordering provider, answers questions about service area and coverage from facts you approve, screens caregiver job applicants, and marks calls about a patient's condition urgent for your on-call clinician.
Homebound. Medicare covers home health only for patients who are homebound, under a provider's order, needing part-time skilled care from a certified agency.
Medicare.gov, Home health services, read 2026
Referral details. Leap takes the patient's address, payer, ordering provider and discharge date on referral calls.
On-call flag. A call about a patient's condition is marked urgent and sent to your on-call clinician mid-call by text.
Applicants sorted. Caregiver job calls are summarized separately, so recruiting calls don't bury patient calls.
Text + email. Each answered call reaches the people you choose by text, email or both, with routing rules you write in plain English.
What calls does a home health agency get?
Agency calls come from hospital discharge planners and physician offices sending referrals, families arranging care for a parent, current patients asking when a nurse or aide will arrive, and people applying for caregiver jobs. Families often ask whether Medicare will pay.
Medicare.gov says home health coverage requires the patient to be homebound, to have been seen in person by a doctor or other provider who orders the care, to need part-time or intermittent skilled services, and to use a Medicare-certified agency (medicare.gov/coverage/home-health-services). Leap can explain your agency's approved version of that and take the referral; your intake team confirms eligibility.
Referrals
Discharge planners and doctors' offices sending a new patient, often on a tight start-of-care date.
Family inquiries
Service area, hours of care, Medicare and private-pay questions.
Visit questions
Patients and families asking when the nurse or aide is coming, or needing to change a visit.
Caregiver applicants
Job seekers asking about open roles, pay ranges you approve and how to apply.
What should Leap collect on a home health call?
For a referral, Leap asks for the patient's name, address or ZIP code, payer, the ordering provider, the discharge date and the services ordered, plus the referral source's callback number.
For a family inquiry, it takes the caller's relationship to the patient, the location, the kind of help wanted and the payer. For an applicant, it takes their name, role, certifications and availability.
What does a home health call sound like?
A typical opening: 'Good morning. This is Sophie from Caring Hands Home Health. How can I help?'
Sample questions it answers from your approved facts: 'Do you serve Cherry Hill?', 'Do you take Medicare Advantage plans?', 'Are you hiring home health aides?' Questions about a specific patient's care plan go to your clinical team.
Which home health calls go to a person?
A change in a patient's condition, a missed visit, a fall, or a medication question goes to your on-call clinician as an urgent text. For a life-threatening situation, Leap tells the caller to call emergency services now.
If you turn on live transfer, Leap can transfer referral calls to intake during open hours, so a discharge planner reaches a person on the first try.
When do home health calls come in?
Referrals spike late in the day and before weekends, when hospitals discharge patients. Families call in the evening after visiting a parent. Patient-condition calls can come at any hour.
Forward all calls after the office closes, or use ring-first during the day so intake answers first. Time-based forwarding is set with your carrier or phone system.
How it works
- 01
Paste your agency website.
Leap drafts answers about services, service area, payers and open jobs.
- 02
Set your on-call contact.
Choose who gets urgent patient calls by text, and who gets referrals and applicants.
- 03
Forward your number.
Keep your number. Each answered call arrives with a summary.
Frequently asked questions
Can Leap take a hospital discharge referral?
Yes. It takes the patient's name, location, payer, ordering provider, discharge date and services ordered, plus the planner's callback number, and sends it to intake.
Can Leap tell a family whether Medicare will cover home health?
It can explain the general conditions in your approved wording, such as being homebound and needing skilled care. It does not decide eligibility; your intake team does.
What happens when a family calls about a patient's fall?
If it's life-threatening, Leap tells them to call emergency services now. Otherwise it takes the details, marks the call urgent and texts your on-call clinician mid-call.
Can Leap screen caregiver job applicants?
It answers questions about open roles from your approved facts and takes the applicant's name, role, certifications and availability for your recruiter.
Can patients change a visit time through Leap?
Leap takes the change request and sends it to your office. It doesn't move visits in your agency software.
Will Leap sign a Business Associate Addendum for our agency?
Yes. We sign a Business Associate Addendum with your practice, and your calls run on a separate protected setup where patient information only goes to vendors covered for HIPAA. Ask us to turn it on.
Can Leap answer families in Spanish?
Yes, if you turn it on. You can add Spanish or up to two languages alongside English.
How does an agency forward its line to Leap after the office closes?
Dial your carrier's forward-all code at closing, or set time-based forwarding in your office phone system. Leap's setup shows the code for your carrier.
What does Leap cost for a home health agency?
$149 a month, first 100 calls included, then $0.99 a call. Setup is free, and billing starts when Leap answers real calls. There is no contract.
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