CareVerify vs Alora
The straight answer
Alora is an all-in-one clinical and operational platform. It covers skilled home health, hospice and pediatric care, it bills Medicare and the VA, it runs payroll, and it now handles new sales for CareTime as well. If your agency does skilled work, or will, this is not a close comparison. CareVerify is non-medical only, built for agencies with 5 to 40 caregivers, and the argument for it is scope and a published price.
Last reviewed 2 August 2026. Every Alora detail on this page came from their own published pages. CareVerify is not affiliated with Alora.
If you came here looking for CareTime
CareTime now sells under the Alora name. Their own announcement states that sales and new agency onboarding are handled through Alora, while existing CareTime customers keep their software, their login, their data, their support team and their subscription terms, with no forced migration planned.
So if you are shopping today, Alora is what you would be buying, and this page is the right comparison. If you already run CareTime, nothing here is telling you to move. Read the CareTime note if you want the detail.
What Alora does well
Said plainly, because the breadth here is real and pretending otherwise would make the rest of this page worthless.
It crosses the line into skilled care
Home health, hospice, pediatric and private duty nursing, with assessments, plan of care, visit notes and OASIS tools. This is the difference that matters most. An agency running non-medical care today that expects to add a Medicare-certified line has a path here that does not involve replacing the system. We have no such path and we are not building one.
It bills everyone, including Medicare and the VA
All-payer billing with pre-billing quality checks, accounts receivable and financial reports, plus payroll. If your current arrangement is one system for visits and a separate scramble for invoices, that consolidation is worth real money.
The unglamorous workforce admin is there
Credential expiry tracking, prior authorization tracking, travel time and mileage, electronic faxing for physician orders, multi-office operation. None of it is exciting and all of it is the sort of thing that quietly eats an office manager's week. We do not have any of it.
Offline documentation, which we will not pretend is ours alone
Working in a home with no signal is something we talk about a lot, and Alora publishes offline documentation that syncs when connectivity returns. Our design rule is a little different, in that a check-in is never blocked and is flagged instead, but the honest position is that this is a comparable row rather than a point in our favor. Test both in a real basement.
The real question is how much of it you need
Alora spans skilled and non-skilled care, four service lines, full back office and clinical documentation. That breadth is the product, and for an agency that uses it, it is good value in one subscription instead of four.
For a purely non-medical agency with fifteen caregivers, a large part of that surface is scenery. You do not need OASIS. You do not have physician orders to fax. You have one office. What you have is caregivers arriving at homes and a payroll run on Friday.
That is the whole basis of our argument, and it is a weaker argument than a feature list. We are not better at what Alora does. We are smaller than what Alora does, which is only an advantage if the extra was never going to be used.
The way to settle it is to sit through their demo and count how many screens describe work you actually do.
On pricing
Alora does not publish prices. Their pages route to a Get Pricing or Request a Demo form. Their own material describes pricing as transparent and without unnecessary add-on fees, and that may be perfectly accurate once you are in the conversation, but it is not on the website where you can check it against a competitor at eleven at night.
Ask them, then run the number through our cost calculator at your caregiver count.
Which situation are you in?
Buy Alora if
- You run skilled home health, hospice or pediatric care, or plan to add it
- You need to bill Medicare, the VA or managed care from the same system that verifies visits
- Credential expiry, prior authorizations or mileage are eating someone's week
- You operate more than one office
- You want one subscription instead of several, and the breadth will genuinely get used
For a mixed skilled and non-skilled agency this is the stronger product and it is not particularly close.
Consider CareVerify if
- You are non-medical only, with 5 to 40 caregivers and one office
- Your problem is visits, schedules and payroll hours rather than clinical documentation
- You already bill through your state system or a payroll provider you like
- You want to see a price and try the thing before speaking to anybody
- You looked at an all-in-one platform and could not find the parts that applied to you
Stay where you are if
- You are an existing CareTime customer who is happy. Their announcement says your software, pricing and support are unchanged
- Your state gives you a free sponsored portal covering nearly every visit. Read the HHAeXchange comparison first
Side by side
Alora wins 12 of these rows and we win 3. Most of what they take is clinical work and back office we have deliberately never built. Note the offline row is comparable rather than ours, because they publish the same capability and we are not going to claim it exclusively.
| What | Alora | CareVerify | Better here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skilled care lines: home health, hospice, pediatric | All supported in one platform | None. Non-medical only | Alora |
| Clinical documentation and plan of care | Assessments, plan of care, visit notes, OASIS tools | No, and never will | Alora |
| Billing for all payers | Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, VA and private pay | No | Alora |
| Payroll processing | Included | Hours exported as CSV and PDF for your provider | Alora |
| Telephony for clients without a smartphone | GPS and telephony options | No | Alora |
| Prior authorization tracking | Included | No | Alora |
| Caregiver credential expiry tracking | Included | No | Alora |
| Travel time and mileage | Built-in calculator | No | Alora |
| Electronic faxing for physician orders | Included | No | Alora |
| Multi-office operation | Included | Single agency only | Alora |
| Uploading your own forms | Upload proprietary forms for electronic entry | No | Alora |
| Dashboards and analytics | Included | Exception queue and payroll export only | Alora |
| Working offline in the home | Offline documentation, syncs when back online | Offline capture, check-in never blocked | Comparable |
| Scheduling | Visits and shift work | Included | Comparable |
| Visit verification with location | Included, with live visit monitoring | Included | Comparable |
| Caregiver mobile app | Mobile-ready on your device of choice | iOS and Android | Comparable |
| Published pricing | Quote only. Get Pricing form | Every tier priced on the website | CareVerify |
| Trying it without talking to sales | Demo request first | 14 day trial, no card, no call | CareVerify |
| Scope you have to learn | A platform spanning skilled, hospice, pediatric and back office | Visits, schedules and payroll hours. Nothing else | CareVerify |
Questions
Is Alora the same as CareTime?
They are the same company now. CareTime states that its sales and new agency onboarding are handled through Alora, and that existing CareTime customers keep their software, login, data, support team and pricing with no forced migration. So if you are shopping today you are shopping for Alora. If you are already a CareTime customer, nothing on this page is asking you to move.
How much does Alora cost?
They do not publish it. Every route through their product pages ends at a Get Pricing or Request a Demo form. Their marketing describes pricing as transparent and free of unnecessary add-on fees, which may well be true once you are in a conversation, but it is not published on the site and we are not going to repeat third-party figures we cannot verify.
Does CareVerify do skilled home health?
No. Alora covers skilled care including OASIS, plan of care documentation, hospice and pediatric home health. We do none of that and we are not planning to. If you run a Medicare-certified skilled line, or expect to, that single fact decides this comparison.
Both of you support offline. What is the difference?
Honestly, not much on the headline. Alora offers offline documentation that syncs later, and so do we. The difference is what happens at the moment of failure: our design rule is that a check-in is never blocked, only flagged, so a caregiver is never left unable to start a visit. We would encourage you to test both in an actual basement rather than take either vendor's word for it.
Which is better for a 15 caregiver non-medical agency?
It depends on whether you want the rest of the platform. Alora gives you billing, payroll, credential tracking and a path into skilled care in one system, at a price you have to ask for. We give you visits, scheduling and payroll hours at a price on the website. Neither answer is wrong, and the honest deciding question is how much of the platform you would actually use.
Are you affiliated with Alora?
No. CareVerify is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Alora Healthcare Systems or CareTime. Alora and CareTime are trademarks of their owners and are used here only to identify the products being discussed.
If this page pointed you at Alora
Then it did its job. Ask for pricing in writing, ask what the non-medical-only configuration looks like, and ask how much of the clinical side you can turn off.
If you recognized your agency in the middle box, the price is published and the trial is 14 days with no card.
Alora and CareTime are trademarks of their owners. CareVerify is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with Alora Healthcare Systems or CareTime. Product details on this page were taken from their own published pages in August 2026 and are described as accurately as we can. Software changes, so check anything that matters to your decision directly with them. If we have something wrong, tell us and we will correct it.