CareSwaps is a Colorado technology platform that surfaces reciprocal swap and multi-facility swap-chain matching options across senior care communities so families can review operational matches (bed availability, payer acceptance, proximity, and timing) and decide for themselves.
The software identifies situations in which two or more communities can exchange residents, creating openings that individual phone calls often miss....
A reciprocal swap is two or more simultaneous transfers that free beds for each other. It is modeled on the logic of kidney-exchange chains rather...
Beds open and close daily; the first available bed that accepts a given payer and care level is frequently not the closest one. Families therefore...
The phrase is shorthand for applying the same matching logic used in kidney-exchange programs, finding pairs and chains of compatible transfers, to...
Matching services are available only for private-pay and commercially insured residents. Federal payers, including Medicare, Medicare Advantage,...
The free eligibility check asks only for high-level operational details: preferred geography, approximate timing window, current care level, and...
The software can surface operational options relatively quickly once a family is active and communities have current bed data. The subsequent steps,...
Calling facilities one by one reveals only the beds open at the exact moment of each call. Reciprocal-swap matching looks across the network for...
A waiting list at one community does not prevent the software from examining whether a reciprocal or chain match involving that community, or nearby...
Once options appear, the family decides whether any of them warrant further conversation with the listed communities. CareSwaps provides document...
Matching is live in Colorado only, with Northern Colorado, including the Fort Collins area, as the initial base. Expansion to additional states is...
The fee is solely for technology access: the matching algorithm, swap-chain visibility, a transfer-status dashboard, and document-management tools....