#HCAF2016
Annual Conference Sessions
Tuesday - Day 1 of 3
Breakfast, Lunch & Reception Included for Attendees
TUESDAY MORNING
Breakfast - with optional Round Table Discussions
8:00 – 9:00 am
9:00am-10:20am
How are you feeling right now about your role as a leader in home health care? Do you sometimes feel like you are drowning in the tsunami of industry change? How does your leadership style affect your ability to keep your head above water and focus on the vision of your agency? In this power-packed interactive presentation Stephen Tweed and Elizabeth Jeffries work together in harmony, playfulness, and with a synchronized message, to shift your thinking and refocus your actions to take your agency toward your future view. You’ll explore the major seismic shifts affecting the future of home health care in America. You’ll see a clear vision of hope and possibility. You’ll explore the profile of star performers. And you’ll engage the heart of a leader.
10:30am – 12:00 pm
Medicare is no longer buying home health care visits. It is buying patient outcomes. And it wants to get the highest quality outcomes for the best price! This program covers the reforms in the Medicare program that put the emphasis on quality and value. From shared risk programs that have providers with financial “skin in the game” to Value Based Purchasing throughout Medicare, CMS has shifted from volume to performance, enlisting patients, your competitors, and other provider sectors into the new age of quality in Medicare. Get the up to the minute on health policy reforms affecting home care such as bundling, ACOs, the Complete Joint Replacement shared risk program, Home health Value Based Purchasing, Star Ratings, and more.
10:30am - 12:00pm
The longevity revolution is an amazing business opportunity. Corporations, venture capital firms and entrepreneurs are all pivoting into this marketplace. What are the market segments: financial services, aging in place technology, caregiving, travel and grandparenting. How does the on demand marketplace connect in to the longevity marketplace. What are the new distribution channels? What does the world of a senior, caregiver and home care agency look like in 2025?
8:45am-11:30am, check in at 8:15am
The Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance (AHCC) is the community for professionals dedicated to providing quality care in post-acute care settings and establishing, meeting, and maintaining standards of excellence in their area of expertise. AHCC’s credentialing arm, the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC), offers professional credentials, including the only nationally accredited home health coding credential that tests coding skills exclusively, the Home Care Coding Specialist— Diagnosis (HCS-D). BMSC has been credentialing home health coders since 2003. More than 68% of agencies require coders to have earned the HCS-D credential as a condition of employment. The credentials are overseen by an independent board of home health experts nationally recognized as leading authorities. Each board member has more than 25 years of experience in home health and hospice, and all are in-demand home health and hospice coding educators. Click here to read more...
8:30am-12:00pm, check in at 8:00am
HCAF will be offering the paper and pencil version of the OASIS Answers, Inc.’s COS-C exam. Home care providers may take this voluntary exam in order to demonstrate their expertise and commitment to OASIS accuracy. The exam consists of 100-multiple choice questions and there is 2.5 hours provided to complete it. Upon successful completion of the exam, participants are awarded the Certificate for OASIS Specialist –Clinical (COS-C) designation. Computer-based testing is also available. Click here to read more...
TRADE SHOW GRAND OPENING LUNCH
12:00-1:30pm
The survey is the survey and the lack of response is difficult to combat, but agencies can affect the scores they are getting from the ones that do respond! Some of the questions that impact VBP and the HHCAHPS Star Ratings are directly impacted by the influence your clinicians have on the patient. Are your clinicians treating wounds or are they treating patients? If your patients believe that they are just another Medicare Number to you and your staff, your HHCAHP score will reflect that. This session will take you through all the questions that affect the Star Ratings and VBP and provide best practice on ensuring that the patient not only feels like a top priority, but know that you are the best agency ever!
Providing quality care as demonstrated by evidence based outcome measures is not only the right thing to do but will impact your bottom line as CMS moves towards a Value Based Purchasing (VBP) model of reimbursement. Creating and implementing an effective continuous performance improvement program is more important now than ever before. Prioritizing the abundant data from CASPER reports and the Home Health CAHPS surveys will prove to be a necessary component of an effective performance improvement program.
The Department of Labor recently stated it believes most workers classified as independent contractors are actually employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. At the same time, other government agencies are also taking a close look at independent contractor misclassification to ensure companies are complying with applicable tax, workers’ compensation, and unemployment obligations. Home health agencies must carefully review their relationships with independent contractors to determine whether a court or government agency will find that certain workers were misclassified. This interactive session will provide an overview of the legal changes with respect to independent contractors, discuss the risks of misclassification, and provide practical advice to avoid potentially costly audits or lawsuits.
The sea may look rough, but agencies can survive the tide of VBP without getting knocked down into sand. The root of all the strategies: Employees. So let’s start at the beginning: learn how to bait and cast, to reel in the best employees for your agency; learn to how train previously mismanaged, misinformed field staff; and hone the skills of your office staff to produce pearls that will withstand any tide. Please join Bonnie as she takes you through proven strategies of a successful orientation and training program that any agency can utilize!
MORE (abundantly better results), FOR LESS (substantially lower cost), FOR MORE (10x clients served) is the foundational concept to actually orchestrate "the tide", not just trust it turns. Technological insight in to the homes of those we care for unlocks this capability. This session will dive into what information we need (and is available) to deliver more abundantly for less cost for many, many more clients. Learn how you can actually deliver on your dream to provide "GREAT" while discovering that it cost less and is exactly what your clients desire.
Speak the language of clinicians and gain more referrals! Learn specific questions to maximize sales performance. Educate your referral sources on how you are a partner for 30 days post-acute care discharge and beyond! Gain the targeted patient population you want!
1ST AFTERNOON BREAKOUT OPTIONS: 1:20-2:20pm
2nd AFTERNOON BREAKOUT OPTIONS: 2:30-3:20pm
This presentation will provide an overview and the latest updates from CMS on Home Health Value Based Purchasing and provide data on how HHVBP scores from Florida agencies have changed in the first six months of CY16. The presenter will provide some insights as to how one provider has been preparing for this new program and where they have implemented changes in their organization along with their quality improvement programs to be successful under HHVBP.
Home care agencies have long identified and monitored key metrics related to the success of the agency, however, the environment has changed significantly and the metric process in many agencies simply has not kept up with the industry. This is especially true as is relates to the rehabilitation disciplines. It is widely accepted that therapy is the financial driver of most agencies and in many ways is directly responsible for the viability of the company. Furthermore, managing a therapy staff without having clearly defined objective metrics can be a daunting task. Moving forward it is essential that agencies identify which metrics to focus on and the appropriate way to communicate and manage them. By implementing the proven processes introduced in this course, agencies can begin to immediately recognize the clinical, financial, and operational benefits that come from the principles taught.
Come listen to author and successful business owner, Jerry Shults, as he dives into the importance and best practices for Medication Management. Taking the right medication at the right time will avoid a tsumani! Take the plunge and learn how to improve your outcomes.
This session will assist providers with complying with the Affordability Care Act and avoiding both the A and B penalties while understanding how to reap the benefit in maintaining your bottom line through self-funded group insurance plans. Attendees will learn how to gain a competitive edge through appropriate employer benefit offerings and in turn, how to improve employee satisfaction and retention.
Are you feeling underwater with all the new changes coming to home healthcare? With the surge of innovative payment models and a heightened focus on agency outcomes, the landscape for home healthcare businesses is changing faster than ever. It is clear that agencies who can deliver higher quality outcomes for patients will be rewarded. Moving forward, home healthcare businesses that can leverage predictive technology to focus their limited care resources and streamline their daily clinical operations will have a significant competitive advantage. These innovative agencies will also be uniquely positioned to use their high-quality outcomes and data-driven strategies as way to create new care partnerships, increase existing referral flow and grow their businesses. In this session, we will learn how agencies can leverage predictive clinical technology to improve outcomes and drive measurable results.
This informative seminar will provide a comprehensive federal legal update for changes in 2016 and beyond in homecare laws. Learn about overtime and the status of the federal companionship exemption; sleep time; travel time; responding to DOL audits; and wage and hour issues affecting your agency. This is a very interactive session -- please bring your questions about any federal employment law issue and we'd be glad to address them during our presentation.
3rd AFTERNOON BREAKOUT OPTIONS: 3:30-5:00pm
With HHVBP programs now in place, it is more important than ever to have a clear understanding of the OASIS items included and how to correctly answer these items. In this interactive presentation, we will discuss OASIS items and strategies for improvement in scoring. While most agencies are proficient in the case mix item scoring, value based purchasing will pull items that are routinely overlooked. The presentation’s emphasis will be on improving assessment strategies for these items. In addition, a new OASIS C2 will be introduced January 2017 to support the Impact Act, and these new items will also be discussed.
This session will cover the basics of behavioral based interviewing as a tool in a manager’s toolkit for effective employee selection and retention. We will learn why behavioral based interviewing is essential to your success as an employer. The environment is no longer an Employer’s market, it is an applicant’s market and we have to revamp our interviewing techniques to improve retention.
The following topics will be covered:
--> Gearing up compliance in anticipation of a sale or merger
--> What sellers need to know
--> What buyers need to ask
--> Negotiating compliance representations and warranties in the sale agreement
--> Indemnifications: What to expect and what to think about
This presentation will provide detailed information how home health agencies can survive and flourish under the home health value-based purchasing model. It will cover financial models to help home health agencies understand their cost of services. The presentation will show why home health agencies need to think outside the box and become the total solutions for care in the patient's home. The presentation will also show home health agencies how to improve their outcomes by adding new programs.
The Principals of Tweed Jeffries, LLC, the parent company of Leading Home Care have been conducting a new research project to identify the attributes of CEOs of high performance home health agencies and private duty home care companies. They are using this new data to develop tools for recruiting, selecting, developing, and retaining highly competent executives who can take their organizations to the next level of performance and service. The purpose of this session is to discuss the results of the study with those CEOs who participated in the study by completing the online assessment tool.
Home health agencies across the country are adding private duty services to their service portfolio in order to capture clients in the beginning of the health care delivery continuum. This trend meets the growing consumer demand of providing more comprehensive services. Consumers and referral sources prefer to work with health care organizations that can provide total care, including private duty, home health and hospice. The $36 Billion private duty industry also represents an enormous revenue opportunity for home health agencies. But the challenge is where to begin. Since there are many variances between home health and private duty, it’s imperative to understand how the models differ before entering the market.