SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Thursday, June 1 7:30am - 8:30am Registration, Breakfast and Exhibitor Showcase Join our sponsor and exhibitors for breakfast before the conference begins. Network and connect with other attendees and learn more about the resources and services offered by our conference supporters.
8:30am - 9:30am Opening Keynote: Insights from the Healthcare at Home National Best Practices and Future Insights Study with Lindsay Doak Moderator: Audra Dennis Presentation handouts: Click HERE The healthcare at home industry has gained tremendous momentum in the last year but we must keep moving forward. By determining where and what resources should be used to achieve the highest clinical, operational and financial outcomes, we strengthen ourselves as an industry and also strenghten our ability to become a formidable partner within the healtcare continuum. Join BerryDunn researcher Lindsay Doak as she reviews date driven answers based on surveys of over 1,000 home health and hospice providers on what works, what doesn't work, and what agencies must do to thrive. This includes positioning agencies for success under the emerging value based models. Even more importantly, agencies will learn key clinical and operational best practices performed by leading agencies in the country.
9:45am - 10:45am Breakout Session 1.1: PDGM & Episode Management with Ronda Howard Moderator: Coleen Schmidt Presentation handouts: Click HERE Breakout Session 1.2: Optimizing the Home Health Continuum with Tara Evans and Chrissy Nierzwicki Moderator: Nicole Naidl Presentation handouts: Click HERE The session will provide the listener with an understanding of the patient experience from referral to discharge. The listener will also be able to identify three benefits of utilizing the referral optimization process and two unique positions involved in care coordination and how they contribute to a positive patient experience. 
11:00am - 12:00pm Breakout Session 2.1: Revenue Cycle Management Deep Dive with Ronda Howard Moderator: Jeanne Curtis Presentation handouts: Click HERE Breakout Session 2.2: Plan of Care Development with Anna Powers Moderator: Clover Crowder Presentation handouts: Click HERE Due to the convenience of checkboxes embedded within the plan of care development of most electronic medical records, it is challenging for agencies to avoid the trap of mass-producing cookie-cutter POCs. In this session we will walk through the authoring of the POC, as well as discuss what needs to be done on it to meet accuracy and compliance standards. We will also provide tips and tricks to set both the clinician and patient up for success.
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch and Exhibitor Showcase
1:00pm - 2:00pm Breakout Session 3.1: Part B Billing with Maureen Kelleher Moderator: Vicki Meyer Presentation handouts: Click HERE Learn and understand the rules and possibilities about Part B billing for outpatient services. Breakout Session 3.2: Culture of Safety Defined: Why it is Important, How it can be Developed & How it can be Evaluated with Keri Culhane Moderator: Coleen Schmidt Establishing a culture of safety is a critical component of hight-quality patient care delivery and plays a key role in an organization's journey toward high reliability. This session will explain what a culture of safety is and why it is important to your organization. In addition, this session will explore the steps your organization can take that fosters a reporting culture, which contributes to developing a culture of safety. Lastly, tools and resources will be shared that can be used in evaluating your organization's culture and can impact the overall success of your organization.
2:15pm - 3:15pm Breakout Session 4.1: The Five Levels of Leadership with Yanick Hicks Moderator: Vicki Meyer This presentation will be packed with information and interaction with the intent of creating a fun learning environment for building awareness. Yanick's goal is to have each participant walk away with at least one mind-changing idea that will create a desire for motivation and self-improvement to increase productivity and results within an organization. Participants will also learn ways to increase their level of influence and impact on others, improve recruitment and retention of staffs while decreasing burnout, be able to describe the five levels of leadership and identify different ways to lead. Breakout Session 4.2: Beyond Hospital to Home...Brainstorming how we document and communicate across multiple disciplines in the home setting with Ruth Busalacchi Moderator: Clover Crowder Presentation handouts: Click HERE Join an open discussion about communication and documentation between members of a person’s post-hospital/in-home team. In-home (ie; client's home or a community residence) aftercare can be complex, so ensuring that there is consistent communication between all disciplines is imperative to meeting client goals and achieving the best outcomes. Let’s work together to navigate a successful home care plan by participating in this robust problem-solving session that will leave you with the communication and documentation ideas to spark conversations within your own organizations!
3:30pm - 4:30pm Afternoon Keynote: Monday Funday! Contributing to a Culture that is on Fire for Patient Care with Andy Hillig Moderator: Audra Dennis Presentation handouts: Click HERE Jobs are abundant, yet people are still choosing to dump their employer as today’s workforce puts more emphasis on their human needs than pay. The reality is many of us aren't finding meaning and joy in what we do and our customers are suffering because of it. In this program, participants will learn how they show up to work sets the tone for the entire team and how to re-discover their purpose, to achieve the team’s desired culture and value they deliver to the patient.
4:30pm - 6:00pm Reception on Riverside Patio Join attendees, exhibitors and speakers during the evening reception. Enjoy light hors d'oeuvres and drinks while meeting old and new friends from the home care industry. |
Friday, June 2
7:30am - 8:30am
Breakfast and Exhibitor Showcase
Join our sponsor and exhibitors for breakfast before the conference continues. Network and connect with other attendees and learn more about the resources and services offered by our conference supporters.
8:30am - 9:30am
Morning Keynote: Value Based Purchasing with Melinda Gaboury
Moderator: Tyler Baures
Presentation handouts: Click HERE
Value Based Purchasing full implementation began January 2023. There is much to learn about the details of the outcome calculations. This session will take you through the detail calculations of the VBP Model. It will detail what we know to be the calculations of the TPS and the Linear Exchange Function for the nationwide rollout. Lastly, agencies have received Pre-Implementation Performance Reports (PIPR) and this session will review how to evaluate the data and develop a plan for the agency to forge improvement.
- Review the outcome measures included in HHVBP
- Review the calculation methodology for Total Performance Score & Linear Exchange Function
- Review PIPR and discuss corrective actions based on agency’s scores
9:45am - 10:45am
Breakout Session 5.1: Telehealth and New G Codes with Bill Paschall
Moderator: Nicole Naidl
Presentation handouts: Click HERE
Breakout Session 5.2: OASIS-E: A New Puzzle for Home Health to Master with Brian Lebanion
Moderator: Clover Crowder
Presentation handouts: Click HERE
The countdown to OASIS-E and home health value-based purchasing (HHVBP) is over. These high-impact changes became a reality on January1, 2023.During this session we will provide insights on how home health organizations transitioned fromOASIS-D1to OASIS-E. This major OASIS overhaul includes a new format, sections and scoring that will potentially impact agency quality performance and reimbursement.
- What the increased focus on “social determinants of health” means for the future of HHAs and the reimbursement and quality measures.
- How the OASIS-E expanded, and updated data elements will be used in the home health quality reporting program (HHQRP) measures.
- Whether OASIS-E will impact star ratings and value-based purchasing (VBP).ยทHow HHAs can use the data being gathered by OASIS-E to improve care and position them for future success under forecastable CMS changes.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Breakout Session 6.1: Negotiating Successful Partnerships with 3rd Party Payers including Managed Care Orgnaizations (MCOs) and Insurances with Brian Lebanion
Moderator: JuliAnna Meyer
Presentation handouts: Click HERE
Presentation helpful links : CMS Program Statistics
MMCO Statistical & Analytic Reports
Wisconsin Medicaid Managed Care - Monthly HMO Enrollment Reports
Medicare Advantage continues to expand its enrollment and all third-party payers continue to seek valuable care while keeping plan costs down. It is more important than ever for providers to be able to successfully negotiate a partnership with these payers that is beneficial to all parties; the patient, the payer, and the provider. Continued operational and financial success requires providers to leverage the quality care they provide to secure commensurate reimbursement. This session will identify the key elements in contracting with these payers.
- Identify elements of payer contracts that should be negotiated, techniques to influence reimbursement/program savings and determine items that will potentially impact collections.
- Provide practical approaches on how to leverage the agency’s strengths, care quality and leverage industry information.
- Provide tools for contract management that may include example spreadsheets, tracking lists and software products.
- Review case examples of to approach negotiations, value-based tools to utilize and how to determine when to move forward or discontinue participating in a program.
Breakout Session 6.2: Reducing Hospital Admissions with Lisa Gorski
Moderator: Nicole Naidl
Presentation handouts: Click HERE
Rehospitalizations are often preventable. While we recognize that acute care hospitalization (ACH) is a home care priority, a publicly reported outcome, and is a major impact in value-based purchasing, it is also important that we understand and appreciate the impact of the patient and family on repeated hospitalizations. Knowledgeable home care clinicians play a critical role in preventing rehospitalizations through understanding risk factors, disease management and patient/caregiver barriers to effective home management. To prevent ACH, home care clinicians must possess a high level of expertise in in assessing and monitoring for changes in condition and must intervene appropriately when early signs/symptoms are identified. The objectives of this session are:
- Identify patient risk factors for ACH.
- Examine evidence-based strategies to prevent ACH.
- Determine when early signs/symptoms may be safely managed in the home.