What is Minute Menu HX?

Minute Menu HX is a comprehensive CACFP management system for Sponsors, designed both to radically reduce operating costs by automating virtually all aspects of a Sponsor's operation and to substantially improve program integrity by helping ensure federal and state policies are accurately and easily followed.  It is used by about 300 sponsors in 40 states covering 85,000 family child care providers -- roughly 60% of the food program nationwide has chosen to use Minute Menu because the features it offers (and the support we provide our Sponsors) are without comparison.  And it's used by Sponsors with anywhere from 20 family child care homes to 5,000 family child care homes.  So regardless where you are, or how large your food program is, Minute Menu is for you!

Minute Menu helps Sponsors manage all aspects of their operations, allowing detailed analysis and reporting on:

• Provider files
• Child files
• Home visit / review files
• Claim files
• Menu & attendance records
• Provider payments (checks & direct deposits)
• Provider training
• Messages / call logs & issue (corrective action) tracking

Besides providing detailed management tools (with over 100 reports) in each of those areas, it also automates several key areas of your operation:

• Claim processing
• Home visit planning & tracking
• Annual child re-enrollments

The most useful automation tool that it provides is claim processing. Minute Menu HX will actually examine meal & attendance records for you, determine which meals are valid and which ones aren't, check a provider's capacity, make sure school aged children aren't claimed when they shouldn't be, ensure no child is claimed more than 2 meals & a snack (or 2 snacks & a meal)... it actually performs over 150 edit checks on every food, every child, every meal, every day. And from these edit checks, it produces a claim for each provider with Tier 1 & Tier 2 meal counts and a detailed error letter that the provider can review (in English or Spanish).

What makes this possible is Minute Menu's automated data collection. Providers can submit claims via the Internet using our Minute Menu Kids system, they can submit claims on scannable forms (in several different formats), or they can submit traditional paper claims, and you can use Minute Menu to automate the processing of all these claims. It saves a tremendous amount of time. More importantly, it dramatically improves your program integrity: it is simply impossible for a human being to do all the checks the food program requires, accurately, on every claim. It's just too much work. When Minute Menu does it, it applies the same rules to every claim every time, so that you can be certain that your claims are being processed consistently. It virtually eliminates audit findings related to claim processing.

Imagine...

Its the beginning of the month. You're preparing claims. Your Providers have been recording their meals each day with easy-to-use Internet software. You sit down in front of your computer. You point and click a few times. And you're done with your claim.

• Your state claim is prepared - summarizing Tier 1 and Tier 2 Hi, Lo, and Mixed Provider meal counts, with the exact detail required by your state.
• Provider meal counts and error reports are ready - including a reason for every disallowed meal to help train your Providers.
• Provider claim reimbursement checks are printed - with adjustments itemized on their check stubs. Direct deposits are made as well.

What's even better, your employees are out in the field training Providers, not combing through paperwork! And you process this entire claim with the knowledge that you won't have any troubles when the auditors come.

For more information, contact us and we can send you a full interest packet describing the software in detail.  Or click here for a basic demo of some program features.

For CACFP management software for Sponsors look no further than Minute Menu Systems.   We are your #1 source for childcare management software specializing in child and adult care management programs.  Contact us today at (972) 671-5211 to learn how Minute Menu Systems can help with your CACFP software needs.