Ankota schedules your visits. What documents and bills them?
Ankota is an operations-first platform — scheduling, telephony EVV, route optimization, and care plans for home-care and I/DD agencies. It is not a clinical EHR with OASIS and skilled-visit charting, nor a billing-grade clearinghouse, nor an AI documentation layer. Agencies typically run Ankota plus an EHR plus a clearinghouse to fill those gaps.
AgenciesForge is AI-native and covers the whole lifecycle — launch, run clinical + billing, and scale across agencies — with clinical charting, OASIS-E, Stedi clearinghouse, and AI Forge in one platform.
Where Ankota stops, AgenciesForge starts
| Capability | Ankota | AgenciesForge |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduling + route optimization | Yes (their core strength) | Visit-based scheduling · conflict + PTO detection |
| EVV (telephony + GPS) | Yes | Yes · GPS + Sandata/HHAeX/state-direct adapters |
| EVV ↔ claim reconciliation | Manual / export | Automatic · loop #18 flags drift pre-submit |
| Clinical charting (SOAP/BIRP/DAP/GIRP) | Care plans, not full clinical EHR | Built in · 4 narrative formats |
| OASIS-E + PDGM + 485 Plan of Care | Limited / not core | Full M-item set · AI narrative · LUPA alerts |
| DD/IDD waiver documentation (MUI, ISP, DSP) | I/DD ops support | 7 state authorities native + clinical depth |
| Behavioral health charting + outcomes | None | Built in · PHQ-9/GAD-7/PCL-5 scoring |
| Stedi 837P / 270 / 271 / 835 (real claims) | Exports for separate billing | Bundled · managed Stedi clearinghouse |
| 15-point AI claim pre-submit audit | None | Catches denials before wire fees |
| AI documentation drafting from voice | None | AI Forge · 23 AI tools |
| WENO ePrescribing (EPCS + PDMP) | None | Integrated |
| Telehealth (HIPAA-compliant) | None | Self-hosted LiveKit included |
| Agency launch + certification workflows | None | 60-day idea→certified arc built in |
| Per-agency self-learning (denials, fee schedules) | None | 25 auto-learning loops |
| Pricing | Quote-based, around visit volume | Capacity-tiered · unlimited users |
What Ankota does that we don't (yet)
Route optimization + telephony EVV depth:Ankota has invested heavily in scheduling logistics and telephony-based visit capture for high-volume personal-care and I/DD day-program operations. If route optimization across a large field workforce is your central operational problem, Ankota's scheduler is more specialized than ours today.
Operations-first deployments:If your agency's need is purely scheduling and visit logistics — with billing and clinical handled elsewhere and no plans to consolidate — Ankota covers that lane directly. AgenciesForge's value compounds when clinical documentation, real claims, and AI tooling belong in the same system.
How agencies typically migrate
- Export your client + caregiver + visit data from Ankota (CSV reports).
- Import into AgenciesForge → Patients → CSV import. Bulk records land in ~10 minutes.
- Configure EVV for your state (direct in open-model states, aggregator feed where mandated).
- Train staff on the AI Forge dictation flow — most learn it in 15 minutes.
- Cut over clinical + billing onto AgenciesForge; consolidate scheduling once your team is comfortable.
Common questions
How is AgenciesForge different from Ankota?
Ankota is operations-first — scheduling, telephony/EVV, route optimization, and care plans for home-care and I/DD agencies. AgenciesForge is a full clinical + billing platform built on AI: clinical charting (SOAP/BIRP/DAP/GIRP), OASIS-E and PDGM for home health, DD/IDD waiver documentation, real Medicaid claims through a bundled Stedi clearinghouse, and AI Forge across the whole workflow. If you need real clinical documentation and billing-grade claims, that's where we pull ahead.
Does AgenciesForge do EVV and visit verification?
Yes — GPS-stamped EVV with Sandata / HHAeXchange / state-direct adapters, plus automatic EVV-to-claim reconciliation (loop #18) so visit time and billed units don't drift apart. In open-model states we can be your direct EVV provider; where a state aggregator is mandated, we feed visits up to it.
We bill Medicaid waiver and skilled visits. Does the billing actually go end-to-end?
Yes. AgenciesForge submits real 837P claims through a managed Stedi clearinghouse, runs eligibility (270/271), posts ERAs (835), and reconciles 277CA acknowledgements — with a 15-point AI pre-submit audit that catches denials before you pay a wire fee. You don't export to a separate billing tool the way operations-first platforms expect you to.
What does the AI do?
AgenciesForge is AI-native. AI Forge drafts session notes and OASIS narratives from voice, audits claims before submission, writes denial appeals and prior-auth letters, classifies inbound faxes, and answers operational questions across the chart. It also learns per agency from your own paid-claim and denial history. There's no comparable layer in an operations-first tool.
How does pricing compare?
Ankota is quote-based, typically priced around client/visit volume. AgenciesForge is capacity-tiered ($199 / $499 / $1,099 per month by active patient count) with unlimited clinician and caregiver seats and Stedi clearinghouse bundled. No per-seat fees, ever.
See it side-by-side with your Ankota account
Book a 30-minute walkthrough — bring a live client and a recent claim, and we'll show you the clinical chart, the OASIS/485 flow, and the 15-point claim audit. If pure scheduling logistics is your only need, we'll say so.