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Sunday, October 15, 2:50 PM - 3:50 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 101
As the contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami noted: “Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.” Informed, and competent advocacy for both home health patients and agencies is made stronger when we normalize having advance care planning conversations. This session will provide advance care planning conversation skills and their importance within person-centered, value-based home health. Sharing leaders’ direct experiences in improving advance care planning conversations, and their aligned use of prognostic tools, we will discuss how teams have helped the people they serve to navigate complexities of illness or face end of life decisions. From case conference processes to embedded, focused education, we will share how agencies have achieved value-based, high-quality performance, yielding an efficient, effective transition of care between home health, advanced illness management, palliative care, and hospice.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 102
End-of-life is one of the most vulnerable times for patients and their families. And, what many do not understand is that there is a significant amount of stress on family caregivers as they care for their loved ones throughout this process. Electing the hospice benefit to support this process can be a life saver for many of these families. But unfortunately due to staffing constraints, regulatory fears, and financial scrutiny there are times when families do not receive optimal hospice care. Resulting in lower family satisfaction and a negative end of life experience. In this interactive presentation attendees will hear from Lead Industry Researcher, Lindsay Doak and CEO of one of the largest hospices Alivia Care, Susan Ponder-Stansel, as they share data driven best practices for optimal hospice performance. This includes best practices in care delivery, integrated technologies that can relieve family burden, patient and family centered care strategies, and more.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 103
As state and federal governments are the major payors of Medicare and Medicaid home-based care, provider organizations that establish Government Affairs and Legislative Advocacy as mission-critical business functions are achieving a return on investment in the form of increased reimbursement. BAYADA has garnered significant dollars in incremental top line revenue due to its legislative and regulatory advocacy engagement at State Capitols on Medicaid issues, as well as in Washington DC around federal Medicare home health and hospice. BAYADA will discuss its strategy and success in achieving state Medicaid rate increases to support business growth. Axxess will demonstrate why a technology partner has invested heavily in an in-house public policy and advocacy team and established the Axxess Political Action Committee to lead and elevate the entire home-based care sector on reimbursement rates and interoperability.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 104
By October, year one of the VBP national expansion will be quickly winding down and the stakes are high with a potential 5% payment adjustment in 2025. Agencies will have limited time to apply strategies to impact performance and allow for a strong finish to year one. This session will review key elements that make up and impact the VBP TPS and explore practical strategies for improving specific performance measures. The session will explore strategies specific to each of the three scoring areas, with particular focus on those measures that are most heavily weighted. This session will also assess various scoring examples and measure the impact of how improving the score on specific measures can impact the total TPS and estimated payment adjustment.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 105
Forbes Magazine recently published an article saying burnout has become an international crisis. This was true for healthcare long before Covid-19 arrived. Causes include inadequate support, escalating workloads, administrative burdens, & and increasing demands. Burnout is not only about long hours, but also about the fundamental disconnect between health workers and the mission to serve that motivates them. New research has uncovered addressable drivers of homecare worker burnout. The metrics reveal information helpful to leaders to increase employee satisfaction and decrease turnover. “Quietly quitting” habits have entered the workforce, leaving employers searching for effective courageous methods to retain staff. Methods such as quietly hiring & searching for micro clues such as resentment, depression, anxiety, or other mental health challenges will be discussed. This session will also include essential techniques to help improve the bottom line by increasing overall employee morale.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 106
This session will begin with an overview of the various types of audits and initiatives, following the progression from least intensive (e.g., ADRs) to most intense (False Claims Act). We will cover current types of audit denials, leading to a discussion of how to reduce your organization's risks during an audit. Specifically, this will include how to elevate internal audit and reimbursement to the forefront of compliance. We will finish with an overview of what a government investigation entails, including tips for reducing your company's expense and exposure in advance.
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Sunday, October 15, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 201
This session provides an overview of the current regulatory environment impacting home health agencies.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 202
Hear Dr. Jennifer Kennedy, Vice President of Quality and Standards for CHAP review the components for certification and the value to hospice and home health agencies designated as Age-Friendly Care at Home providers. Most people want to receive care at home as they age. Community Health Accreditation Partners recently launched Age-Friendly Care at Home certification as an extension of the Age-Friendly Health Systems program, an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the American Hospital Association and Catholic Health Association of the United States. To be certified, a provider must support a care model that follows four evidence-based elements of high-quality care, known as the “4Ms”—what matters most, medication, mentation, and mobility.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 203
Organizations are moving towards new innovative reimbursements models based on value and quality. In order to keep up with the demand from payer, providers need to look at ways to differentiate themselves in compensation models to retain and recruit staff. This session will provide insight on how to align compensation models for clinicians, clinical managers and support staff to incentivize them to provide quality care and drive financial results. This session will provide example of compensation models, data to measure performance and how to execute on these strategies. The session will provide how these models can assist in recruitment and retention of staff for Home Health and Hospice organizations.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 204
Home health agencies have experienced some challenging years and 2023 and 2024 promise more of the same. Reimbursement rates have been squeezed and further cuts are proposed by CMS, yet costs and regulatory requirements continue to rise. Not to mention the expansion of home health VBP nationally. Agencies are challenged to maintain quality while attempting to become more efficient and productive to battle margin compression. In this interactive session in a panel format, findings will be shared from the FORVIS and SHP’s annual benchmark analyses as they study the financial and operational indicators of the top performing agencies in quality and financial performance. Findings from survey results will be shared on the operational approaches and strategies these top performing agencies use to achieve optimal results in a balanced manner.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 205
Soon we will begin our fourth year with PDGM, yet agencies still struggle with the “new” reimbursement algorithm. Management and clinical staff seem to be at opposite ends of the pole, trying to reconcile limited utilization while still meeting the patients' needs. Appropriate number of visits used by clinical staff shouldn't be a difficult battle, nor should micromanaging clinicians be a necessary solution to the new PDGM payment structure. This session will help provide meaning to PDGM in the midst of the gibberish we are attempting to comprehend. A simplistic approach to PDGM will allow agencies to fully train clinicians on what CMS expects from them at the bedside, providing the best quality care and still help the agency thrive. PDGM is NOT a cost-cutting measure implemented by CMS to reduce overall costs. Rather, it's an evidence-based guide for home health agencies to provide quality care that result in better patient outcomes.
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Monday, October 16, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 301
Our health system implemented an innovative high-intensity home-based rehabilitation model—“Home Care Plus” (HCP)—in 2019 for patients attributed to our ACO. The primary aim of this presentation is to examine functional status at PAC discharge for patients in HCP versus a SNF. We also compare hospital length of stay, 30-day readmission, and 30- and 90-day post-hospital healthcare costs between HCP and SNF cohorts. In this session we will discuss our vision, goals, inclusion and exclusion criteria, operational challenges and successes, as well as outcomes. In the end, we believe we are driving VALUE. Come see for yourself.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 302
Workplace violence presents a unique challenge to home health, hospice, and private duty clinicians and their managers as the underreporting of violent incidents can have a dangerous impact on our clinicians. Our research investigated the use of natural language processing to help better identify violence incidents not reported to leadership. This session reviews research of nearly 600,000 home health clinical notes to identify type II workplace violence prevalence data and a comparative analysis of established reporting results. The researchers will review the innovative use of machine learning and the procedures to use natural language processing to help home health, hospice, and private duty agencies identify and address potential violence insight opportunities. The team will identify how automated algorithms were designed and discuss why this innovative use of technology can better inform agency leaders to help keep staff members safe.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 303
Post-acute care can involve multiple different providers, each relying on the other to coordinate care. Additionally, in many cases communication between these providers remains both ad hoc and analog, all while reimbursement models shift and the labor market remains tight. Learn how you can overcome these challenges with the right interoperability. Through industry research featuring post-acute and referring provider perspectives, as well as an executive panel discussion, we will dive into steps to create your own playbook that can help you build and grow your referral partnerships in our ever-evolving value-based world.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 304
The hospice world is undergoing dramatic changes as legislators, regulators, and policymakers seek to ensure appropriate oversight and transparency for one of the fastest-growing segments of the Medicare program and explore policy options that could irrevocably change the hospice benefit as we know it today. NAHC’s hospice experts will provide an overview of expanding federal program integrity efforts, hospice care patterns being tracked by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and others, efforts by CMS to incorporate hospice into the Medicare Advantage benefit package, as well as other important issues in hospice, and their implications for the future of the hospice program.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 305
As if dealing with a new reimbursement model, a global pandemic, and the multitude of regulatory and practice changes that came with both weren’t enough, CMS continues to challenge the home health community. Providers must now fortify themselves for the -3.925% permanent payment adjustment and the nationwide expansion of home health value-based purchasing (VBP) finalized for this year and prepare for additional cuts expected in coming years related to the statutorily required temporary payment adjustment. Best practice episode management is more important than ever, and the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and data analysis tied to clinical practice is critical to success. This session will delve into identification of KPIs for home health, using KPIs and data analysis to drive clinical success, and how successful implementation of data-driven strategies will lead you to financial success under PDGM and VBP.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 306
The due diligence process is cumbersome and overwhelming for buyers and sellers. it is filled with analysis, thorough review, and expert insight to assess the inter-workings and history of a potential merger or acquisition. This session will cover the investigation of “dead deals,” in addition to “Quality of Earnings,” and Clinical Compliance and will highlight the various reasons – legal, employment, and others that resulted in failed transactions. Attendees will take away a stronger understanding of the due diligence process through the stories shared by industry experts and lessons learned on what to look for and avoid in a future successful transaction.
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Monday, October 16, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 401
As the healthcare and payment model landscape evolves, join us as we hear from VNS Health executives who have positively disrupted the provider and health plan status quo. The VNS Health organization will share insights and lessons learned from a holistic care continuum lens that provides care for 44,000 patients' lives every day. Nearly 70% of VNS Health’s annual revenue is derived from their health plans or is attached to full risk contracts across various service lines. In this session the VNS Health team will share their journey in becoming a national leader in at-risk contracting and population health management as well as how to lean into the advantages of becoming a Payvider.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 402
In late 2020 the Congress enacted significant changes to the hospice survey and enforcement process, including creation of a “Special Focus” program for poor performing hospice providers, expansion of the enforcement remedies that CMS can use to penalize seriously deficient hospices, and requirements that CMS make survey findings publicly available. In 2023 CMS separately revised the process surveyors use for hospices. The significantly revised process targets four conditions of participation and focuses on quality of care. Later in 2023 CMS proposed a structure for the Special Focus Program. This session will explore, the details of the revised survey process and enforcement remedies that hospices will be subject to, what’s at stake for hospice under these reforms, and tips for where hospices should focus preparation efforts will be discussed.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 403
Session attendees will understand and identify home care’s unique and vital role in addressing health disparities. HCA E&R sought out grant funding and multiple partners to develop the initiative, Addressing Health Disparities Through Home Care. As a part of this initiative, a needs assessment was conducted to identify interventions and best practices that can help eliminate persistent gaps in care. To address home care and hospice needs, multiple initiatives were developed. Education and training to support staff development and training of cultural competencies, the enhancement of their ability to treat and care for patients with co-occurring physical and mental health conditions, and certifications of clinicians at a sample set of agencies in population care coordination. Additional components include a translation initiative, a new health literacy program, and a collaborative pilot model. When disparities are recognized and addressed, the patient and the community benefit.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 404
This educational session aims to enhance the knowledge and skills of home health professionals in maximizing the utilization of home health visits to achieve positive patient outcomes. Participants will learn strategies to improve patient engagement, promote adherence to care plans, and facilitate effective communication between patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers. This session will include interactive case studies and group discussions to apply the concepts learned to real-life scenarios. At the end of the session, participants will have the knowledge and skills to maximize the utilization of home health visits to achieve positive patient outcomes.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 405
Has your hospice had payment denials based on the content quality of a physician’s Certification of Terminal Illness (CTI) narrative during surveys or external audits? Since the 2016 OIG report, hospices have seen increased scrutiny of the CTI narrative based on OIG recommendations. Amedisys took a proactive approach and utilized natural language processing technology to review and audit CTI narratives. The automated audit monitored for the presence or absence of key narrative phrases and gave a pass or fail result. Failed narratives were reviewed individually by the PI team and clinical leaders provided educational feedback that engaged the team and physicians to improve CTI narrative content quality. Company-wide fail rate was monitored weekly using p-charts to follow interventions and outcomes. Outcomes include reduction in CTI narrative fail rate from 15% to 3% in 9 months, improved content quality of CTI narratives, and reduction in denials by Medicare Administrative Contractors.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 406
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has implemented the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) program to help providers and suppliers reduce claim denials and appeals through one-on-one help. This program helps in identifying and correcting errors, including common errors such as missing physician signatures. However, TPE is a major issue that makes Home Health and Hospice agencies anxious. TPE is the current process that Medicare MACs are using to conduct medical review in the pre-payment model. The TPE process involves receiving a letter explaining the process, with 20-40 claims being pulled for review. Failing a review means your agency has a denial percentage greater than the Medicare MAC's allowed percentage and this process can be repeated with ongoing review for three additional rounds. This is a costly process and it is important than ever to have clinical staff members review charts and document accurately to prevent denials.
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Monday, October 16, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 501
As the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implements Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP), the home care landscape continues to become more competitive; agencies must track patient outcomes and train their staff to capture the appropriate and best results. In this session, Angie Karr of McBee, and Steve Pamer of Cleveland Clinic, will explain how these organizations collaborated to identify lower performing staff, monitor functional outcomes, evaluate and develop countermeasures to improve risk adjustment, develop platforms to improve staff performance and drive results including a 1.5-star rating improvement in Quality.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 502
Hospice leaders need to understand more than ever the importance of key survey readiness priorities to avoid CMS survey enforcement remedies and ensure regulatory compliance. This interactive program focuses on changes to the survey process with hospice survey changes as well as top survey issues and the potential for enforcement remedies that will shape surveys for years to come. Specific strategies hospice managers and leaders can implement to demonstrate hospice-wide compliance will be discussed.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 503
This session will provide an overview of the CMS Administrative Appeal process for home health and hospice providers. This session will discuss: (i) Redetermination Appeals by a Medicare Administrative Contractor, (ii) Reconsideration Appeals before a Qualified Independent Contractor, (iii) ALJ Appeals before the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals, and (iv) Appeals to the Medicare Appeals Council. This session will also provide an overview of audit activity and initiatives by UPICs and other governmental investigative bodies. This session will further provide an overview of best practices to responding to governmental and private payor audits and with navigating through the multi-tiered Medicare appeal process.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 504
This session will cover the details of the Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Model – Hospice Benefit Component. Medicare Advantage (MA) has long had coverage for home health patients, but there has never been coverage for Hospice under the MA benefit. VBID is a demonstration that was set to end in 2025, has now been extended through 2030. There are multiple Medicare Advantage Organizations (MAO) that are participating and have coverage in multiple states. CMS is testing how the hospice benefit component can improve beneficiary care through greater care coordination, reduced fragmentation, and transparency in line with recommendations by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) and others. Hospice must prepare as more and more MAOs are participating in VBID to offer the hospice benefit to their beneficiaries.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 505
Artificial Intelligence is prepared to transform companies around the world with the promise of intelligent software doing tasks that, until now, have always required a human to perform it. This session will help agencies see where they can use artificial intelligence now, where the technology is going, and what they need to do to fully unleash it in their organizations over the next several years.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 506
This session will be presented by the J15 HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), CGS Administrators, LLC. You don’t want to miss this session if your hospice agency is in Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, or the District of Columbia, or other states where CGS might be your MAC. This session will address recent and future changes in Medicare that have or will impact processing and reimbursement of Medicare claims to hospice agencies. It will also discuss common billing errors and resources for preventing and resolving these mistakes.
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Tuesday, October 17, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 601
This session will provide an overview of the Medicaid program, key concepts that govern its policy and programmatic decisions, and the program's statutory and regulatory framework. The presentation is intended to enhance participants' understanding of Medicaid to increase the ability to participate in the program as well as to engage with policymakers to influence decisions.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 602
Researchers investigated the prevalence of emergency department (ED) utilization by focusing on primary care provider (PCP) relationship support use by home health patients. This session provides a review of reasons why home health patients used the ED, coupled with preventable and non-preventable analysis. We will discuss when the home health patients could not wait for a home health visit, and the percent of patients using the on-call option versus following nurse and physician guidance to go immediately to the ED. This session will discuss the research findings, and which patients were admitted to the hospital from their ED visit. The researchers will identify opportunities for changing home health care options to better support the population of patients seeking assistance in an ED. The presenters will identify how PCP relationships are impacting home health patients and clinicians, payors, and providers.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 603
During this session hear from Jeff Salter, the CEO who biked across the US for 4 months, and Ian Klaes, the VP who kept the business thriving in Jeff's absence. Jeff's 9500-mile journey on two wheels was a feat that not only raised funds for a good cause but also proved the importance of a well-prepared team. Ian will share his experience of leading the team through the challenges of Jeff's absence, including the frequent questions of "Where's Jeff?" and "When is he coming back?" Learn how Ian managed to keep things running smoothly, from making tough decisions to dealing with the daily grind of running a 53-location home care business. And of course, we'll get Jeff's perspective on what it was like to ride every day, sleep in a different bed every night, and miss out on all the fun back at the office.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 604
Addressing social determinants of health (SDOH) is a key approach to achieving health equity. In this session, we will present the findings from multiple research studies, including an analysis of national data (OASIS, MedPAR, MBSF, etc.) to understand how socioeconomic status affects infection outcomes for Medicare recipients receiving home healthcare (HHC). Using data from qualitative interviews and national surveys, we will describe staffing challenges faced by HHC agencies in rural areas and those serving primarily racial/ethnic minorities and explore the solutions the HHC agencies adopted to ensure quality care.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 605
This session will be presented by the J15 HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC), CGS Administrators, LLC. You don’t want to miss this session if your home health agency is in Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming, or the District of Columbia, or other states where CGS might be your MAC. This session will address recent and future changes in Medicare that have or will impact processing and reimbursement of Medicare claims to home health agencies. It will also discuss common billing errors and resources for preventing and resolving these mistakes.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 606
This program, featuring Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Palmetto GBA will include information regarding the most recent updates and changes in Medicare regulations that affect the states for whom Palmetto is the MAC, as well as potential future changes. Participants will also learn about documentation requirements, self-service tools, and resources that will enable them to better implement processes that ensure they comply with the rules.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 701
Palliative care has been a care concept for many years, helping many patients and communities deal with chronic care and the management of these conditions. Although this is a misunderstood care concept, it is equally misunderstood from a business perspective. In this session we will delve into palliative care and how it works to support communities. We will also look at the start of many programs, both within systems and within hospice providers, that we designated as “loss leaders” that were touted by the ability to direct more patients into acute services or create a better transition into hospice. In both situations, palliative care did not achieve those goals. We will unpack the reasons behind this, as well as how your agency or system can begin to better coordinate the palliative care model into your operations to utilize the value that these services can provide to the organizations and communities they support.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 702
Care of the patient in the home has become more complicated. As technology advances, it fosters the ability to meet the complex needs of the patient in a more effective way. This includes identifying the best ways to educate the patient and caregivers, improving communication, and ongoing remote monitoring. Technology is extremely important for patients suffering from complex heart disease. In this session, you will be able to see how the latest technology/AI is applied to this patient population.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 703
Since implementation of the Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM), CMS has significantly increased the emphasis on quality of care over amount of care, tying payment to outcomes. At the same time, patients are going home sooner, and sicker, than ever before, and continued workforce shortages have further added to challenges in home care delivery. Occupational therapy (OT) practitioners can play many different roles in delivery of home health services by improving efficiency, implementing new administrative requirements, and optimizing outcomes for patients, yet many providers and patients only think of OT when addressing dressing and bathing skills. Learn how occupational therapy intervention goes beyond basic activities of daily living skill training to achieve improved patient outcomes, reduced costs, and helps home health agencies ignite their quality reporting program success.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 704
Post Covid-19 leaders recognize that meeting patient needs and increasing service demand would require changes, allowing clinicians to practice at the top of their license. Many home visit issues distracted clinicians from patient care and could be done virtually by other roles. Timely initiation of care and job satisfaction by clinicians was necessary. Administrative tasks were time-consuming and unnecessary tasks performed by clinicians. We created a new care delivery model allowing the patient to be the center of the care team. Case management and quality care were developed into central team roles to support field clinicians, allowing them to have satisfying patient care visits.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 705
Now that both HHVBP and OASIS-E have been implemented, how should you be working to improve your HHVBP Total Performance Scores (TPS), HHCAHPS and Quality Star Ratings? How do these programs intersect and which measures and data points should you be tracking in improving your patient outcomes and agency scores? Join Amanda Gartner and Chris Attaya as they navigate these programs and the operational approaches and strategies that will make you a winner.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 706
This education session has been designed to highlight the role of the JK & J6 Home Health Medicare Administrative Contractor and provide an overview of information regarding the federal Medicare home health & hospice benefits. Faculty will offer providers information regarding how to respond to an ADR, the most current NGS home health and hospice edits, as well as how to avoid and appeal your claim denials. Providers will receive the most up-to-date references and resources and contact information for future questions regarding the federal Medicare home health and hospice benefits.
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Tuesday, October 17, 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
- Room: Potomac C
- Session Number: 801
The role of a hospice medical director traditionally focused on clinical care and discipline specific tasks as part of the IDG. However the role is changing, with increasing responsibilities in areas such as regulatory compliance and quality improvement. This session will focus on the changing nature of the responsibilities of a hospice medical director. Particular emphasis on the changing nature of quality measures in hospice, the relationship between quality and value based payment methods, and the importance of the hospice medical director in quality improvement.
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- Room: Potomac D
- Session Number: 802
VNA of Ohio is a member of the VNA Health Group, a large non-profit provider of home-based services with just under 42,000 home health admissions in 2022. Innovation is imbedded in our mission statement. In 2015 we created the Connected Health Institute. Early projects focused on data collection, aggregation, and reporting. In 2016, we created specialty programs to care for specific populations. From there, the need to operationalize data from flat reporting into actionable information was apparent and we created a web-based application to organize and present information from multiple sources. Multiple times a day we mine Homecare Homebase to surface assessment findings that provide critical pieces of information about a patient and their individual risk factors, including social determinants and confidence in their ability to manage their condition(s). We have since expanded to wider patient populations with an evolving set of risk models and alerts, including sepsis risk.
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- Room: Potomac 1-3
- Session Number: 803
Attendees in this session will learn about a new, innovative model of care, Collaborative Models of Community Medicine and Paramedicine. HCA E&R sought grant funding and multiple partners to initiate and pilot a multiyear plan that is currently underway in three rural and small community regions across New York State. Instead of focusing solely on statutory change, this initiative uniquely draws upon collaboration. Core health sector partners and practitioners from the hospital, home care, physician, and EMS sectors were brought together to tailor pilots to each community's specific needs, resources, and residents. The goal is to avoid ED episodes and visits, reduce hospital readmissions, and avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and ambulance transports. In the first year of the grant, community-centered collaboration among providers resulted in successful patient outcomes that can be attributed to continued education, communication, and trust-building.
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- Room: Potomac 4-6
- Session Number: 804
Join an information-packed session detailing how to best prepare for a successful transaction and avoid the clinical, operational, financial, and legal issues in order to maximize valuation, other deal terms and chances of a successful and timely closing.
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- Room: National Harbor 2-3
- Session Number: 805
Representatives from Palmetto, National Government Services (NGS), and CGS will participate in a panel to discuss vital home health issues. This is an opportunity to hear directly from these Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) about global issues impacting home care. Audience participation is encouraged and there will be time to ask questions.
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- Room: National Harbor 10-11
- Session Number: 806
Join Johns Hopkins Care at Home in an interactive discussion on the recently published resource guide to create awareness about the work done by the Task Force, understand from the audience the tools needed to support the safety of home and community-based workers, and spurring national discussion on next steps in building a safety plan for your organization.
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