hours ladder

Audit Home Health Hours Against the Authorisation — Free

Paste the authorised hours and each visit log, and read the shortfall in hours before the authorisation period ends.

The proof surface

Authorised hours are an entitlement with an expiry date. Reconciling weekly shows the gap while there is still time to have visits made up.

Inputvisit logs with their dates and the hours authorised in the plan of care

Rare devicereconciles delivered visit hours against the authorised plan from the reader's own logs, week by week

Output artifacta weekly ladder of delivered hours with the shortfall counted against the authorisation

Cost$0 · local-first · one free run · samples labelled

Sample, not your facts: Sample: week of 24 Aug 2026 delivered 4 hours, 12 authorised weekly, one cancellation, one no-show, four-week authorisation — four concrete points across four types.

Why the flat version breaks

Authorised as delivered

An authorisation is a plan, not a record; without a weekly reconciliation the shortfall surfaces after the period expires and cannot be made up.

Cancellations without rescheduling

Each cancelled visit without a rescheduled date removes hours that the authorisation cannot carry forward in most plans.

Shortened visits

Visits that run short are the quietest form of missing hours and rarely appear in an agency's own summary.

How to work the hours ladder

Log visits weekly

One line per week with each visit and its hours, noting cancellations and no-shows.

Enter the authorisation

Weekly hours and the number of weeks the plan covers.

Read the rungs

Delivered hours stack per week against the authorised line, with the shortfall at the foot.

Reconcile before it expires

Send the reconciliation to the agency and ask which visits will be made up in the remaining weeks.

What the ladder replaces

Question	Before	On the ladder
Are we getting the plan	notice visits feel short	delivered hours per week against authorisation
How much is missing	no idea until it expires	shortfall counted on the foot line
What to ask the agency	'can you visit more?'	the specific weeks and hours to make up

Cancellations and no-shows are counted as missing hours when you mark them; the ladder does not judge why a visit did not happen.

Run it on the samples, right here

FIRST-LOAD

Data note: Everything runs in this browser tab on the hours ladder: your visit logs and the plan of care stays on this device, nothing is uploaded, and the reading is rebuilt only when you press run.

Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a climbing rung ladder

The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 9 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.

The ladder and the shortfall are free. The paid layer prints the hours reconciliation for the agency and the plan.

Open the home hours ladder companion

Boundary

This hours ladder works only on the visit logs and the authorised hours you paste you paste. It does not give medical or care advice, does not change the plan of care, and does not contact the agency for you. The figures describe what you supplied, not what is true in the world. Confirm anything you plan to act on with the agency's care coordinator and the plan's case manager before you rely on it.

What this is built on

Every figure comes from the visit logs and the authorised hours you paste you paste; nothing is looked up, scraped or asserted as verified.
Method: delivered hours are summed per week and compared with the authorised weekly hours across the period
Sample values are labelled samples — illustrative by design, not your data and not a quotation of any organisation's policy.

Before: the reader assumed the visits matched the plan. After: they can see 34 of 48 authorised hours delivered with four weeks left.