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July 25-27, 2023 | Las Vegas, NV
Home Care Administrator
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Hospice Administrator
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Home Care Administrator Certificate Program (HCACP®) PROGRAM OVERVIEWThe goal of the Home Care Administrator Certificate Program (HCACP®) is to provide a supportive learning environment to you, as a home care administrator. You will be able to advance your skills and knowledge base to position your organization to prosper in the rapidly changing health care environment and to incorporate the complexities of quality, compliance, financial and strategic performance. This three-day core curriculum is designed to prepare you for the challenges of administration and to thrive into the future.
The HCACP is a three-module curriculum:
- LEGAL focuses on legal/compliance management to help you integrate quality, compliance and financial strategies appropriately and successfully.
- FINANCE focuses on financial management principals and information.
- STRATEGY focuses on vision driven leadership and performance management strategies to position your organization for success.
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PROGRAM TOPICS
Upon successful completion of the HCACP, participants will be able to:
- Identify key health care trends that will influence positioning strategies for your home care organization.
- Integrate data management and analysis methods into your quality assessment and performance improvement program.
- Implement key financial management strategies to prepare and interpret financial documents and to understand the impact of current changes in health care.
- Understand the importance of various accounting methods to improve agency performance and position for success.
- Understand leadership responsibilities in promoting a quality driven organization.
- Integrate corporate compliance issues with clinical, financial and legal integrity of the organization.
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Day 1: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Program Overview
8:05am - 10:00am Current and Future Healthcare Trends Affecting Your Home Care Organization: Sharon Seaton
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45pm Information Management for Home Health & Hospice Leaders: Christine Lang
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Creating a Quality-Driven Organization Culture: Sharon Seaton
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Home Health Industry Quality Analysis: Christine Lang
4:00pm - 6:00pm Reception with Sponsors
Day 2: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Overview of the Day
8:05am - 10:00am Essential Elements of Home Care Payment Model: Annette Lee
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Home Care Value-Based Purchasing: Annette Lee
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch with Sponsors (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Essential Elements of Clinical Operations Management: Annette Lee
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm OASIS Clinical Management: Annette Lee
Day 3: Thursday, July 27, 2023
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Overview of the Day
8:05am - 10:00am Fraud & Abuse Compliance Overview & Enforcement Trends: Greg Jones
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Employment Law Compliance Overview & Enforcement Trends: Angelo Spinola
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Risk Mitigation - Build An Effective Compliance Program: Greg Jones and Angelo Spinola
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Responding to Audits, Investigations, and Lawsuits: Greg Jones and Angelo Spinola
4:00pm - 4:30pm Evaluations
FACULTY Christine Lang
Director of Data Consulting
Simione Healthcare Consultants
Christy brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare data analysis, primarily focused on home health and hospice, to her role leading Simione´s efforts to increase and improve the use of data in consulting projects and client operations. Christy is an active member of the post-acute professional community, serving on a number of NAHC workgroups and committees and frequently presenting on topics that include business intelligence, benchmarking, quality measurement, customer satisfaction and value-based purchasing. Christy earned a Masters of Business Administration and a B.A. in political science and mathematics from the University of Washington.
 Sharon Seaton, RN, BSN, CHPN, HCS-O, HCS-D
Clinical Product Development
Corridor
Sharon Seaton has 30 years of varied Home Health and Hospice experience in clinical and senior management, as well as experience in compliance in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Her focus has been on quality, compliance and education. As an Executive Director, her agency won an award for Hospice of the Year for growth and quality scores. She also was the recipient of a Rotary International grant for rural hospice care and served as a board member for the Colorado Hospice and Palliative Care Association. She is currently an Clinical Product Development Specialist at The Corridor Group. Sharon has been a featured speaker at conferences across the U.S. showcasing both Hospice and Home Health coding and compliance.
 Annette Lee, RN, MS, COS-C, Cahaba GBA, and CGS
Founder & President
Provider Insights, Inc.
Annette is a registered nurse, with a Master's in Health Care Administration, practicing since 1990, with the majority of her nursing experience in home health. For over a decade she worked with the CMS intermediary where she provided review of, and education on home health documentation. Annette then began providing outreach and provider education regarding Medicare reimbursement issues and effective documentation strategies, assisting providers with ADRs and appeals. Today she marries together her experience in the "real world" and the inside knowledge of Medicare to ensure providers can meet the requirements of CMS, and ensure compliant, efficient operations. She presents nationally on OASIS, PPS, documentation and coverage and provides content expertise to the CMS OASIS Q&A Mailbox. Annette holds both the Certificate for OASIS Specialist-Clinical and the Home Care Coding Specialist-Diagnosis certification. She is an AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM Coding Trainer.
 Angelo Spinola
Attorney
Polsinelli PC
With two decades of legal experience, Angelo Spinola's practice focuses on employment litigation with a special interest in the home health, home care and hospice industry. Bringing a wide breadth of knowledge across the health care spectrum, he works with an array of home-based care clients, including Fortune 500 organizations and franchisors, small-owned businesses and franchisees across multiple industries. Additionally, Angelo works closely with private equity firms and investment groups with respect to labor and employment issues that may arise during acquisitions and activities in these sectors.
Angelo partners with attorneys in Polsinelli's Health Care, Corporate and Transactional and Franchise practices to build coalitions that bring a deep bench of experience and industry knowledge to his clients in the home health, home care and hospice industry.
Leveraging technology to better serve clients, Angelo utilizes innovative legal technology platforms designed specifically for franchise systems and home health, home care and hospice clients. The platform serves as a source for industry information and substantive legal resources where employers have direct access to the tools, documents and knowledge needed to reduce their legal spend as their business needs grow throughout the corporate lifecycle and franchise process. Angelo also utilizes client portals to share confidential, proprietary client documents to allow clients and Angelo to seamlessly manage matters or case-specific documents.
 Gregory Jones
Attorney
Polsinelli PC
Gregory Jones is an attorney in the firm's Health Care Litigation practice. He is a distinguished litigator with more than 16 years of experience defending clients in a variety of health care litigation matters. Greg represents a broad range of health care companies, including health systems, hospitals, medical providers, physicians, and physician groups, in lawsuits and arbitrations involving a wide array of disputes, including claims for unfair competition and business practices, health insurance fraud, antitrust, breach of contract, false advertising, and other business torts. He also defends clients in qui tam actions brought under the Federal False Claims Act, the California False Claims Act and the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act. Based in the firm's Los Angeles office, Greg has litigated and tried cases in federal and state courts throughout the country, including California, New York, Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, Washington, D.C., New Mexico and Delaware.
Hospice Administrator Certificate Program (HACP)
PROGRAM OVERVIEWThe goal of the Hospice Administrator Certificate Program (HACP) is to provide a supportive learning environment to you, as a hospice administrator. You will be able to advance your skills and knowledge base to position your organization to prosper in emerging end-of-life care services and incorporate the complexities of quality, compliance, financial and strategic performance. The three-day core curriculum is designed to prepare you for the challenges of administration and to thrive into the future.
The HACP is a three-module curriculum:
- LEGAL focuses on legal/compliance management to help you integrate quality, compliance and financial strategies appropriately and successfully.
- FINANCE focuses on financial management principals and information.
- STRATEGY focuses on vision driven leadership and performance management strategies to position your organization for success.
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PROGRAM TOPICS
Upon successful completion of the HACP, participants will be able to:
- Identify key health care trends that will influence positioning strategies for your hospice organization.
- Integrate data management and analysis methods into your quality assessment and performance improvement program.
- Implement key financial management strategies to prepare and interpret financial documents and to understand the impact of current changes in health care.
- Understand the importance of various accounting methods to improve hospice performance and position for success.
- Understand leadership responsibilities in promoting a quality driven organization.
- Understand leadership responsibilities in promoting a quality driven organization.
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Day 1: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Program Overview
8:05am - 10:00am Current and Future Trends Affecting Your Home Care: Sharon Seaton
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Information Management for Home Health and Hospice Leaders: Christine Lang
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Industry Data and Opportunities for Using Data: Christine Lang
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Creating a Quality Driven Organization Culture: Sharon Seaton
4:00pm - 6:00pm Reception with Sponsors
Day 2: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Overview of the Day
8:05am - 10:00am Essential Elements of Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch with Sponsors (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Hospice Financial Management: Mandy Hagar
Day 3: Thursday, July 27, 2023
7:00am - 8:00am Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:05am Welcome / Overview of the Day
8:05am - 10:00am Fraud & Abuse Compliance Overview & Enforcement Trends: Greg Jones
10:00am - 10:15am Break
10:15am - 11:45am Employment Law Compliance Overview & Enforcement Trends: Angelo Spinola
11:45am - 1:15pm Lunch (provided)
1:15pm - 2:30pm Risk Mitigation - Build An Effective Compliance Program: Greg Jones and Angelo Spinola
2:30pm - 2:45pm Break
2:45pm - 4:00pm Responding to Audits, Investigations, and Lawsuits: Greg Jones and Angelo Spinola
4:00pm - 4:30pm Evaluations
FACULTY
 Christine Lang
Director of Data Consulting
Simione Healthcare Consultants
Christy brings more than 20 years of experience in healthcare data analysis, primarily focused on home health and hospice, to her role leading Simione´s efforts to increase and improve the use of data in consulting projects and client operations. Christy is an active member of the post-acute professional community, serving on a number of NAHC workgroups and committees and frequently presenting on topics that include business intelligence, benchmarking, quality measurement, customer satisfaction and value-based purchasing. Christy earned a Masters of Business Administration and a B.A. in political science and mathematics from the University of Washington.
Sharon Seaton, RN, BSN, CHPN, HCS-O, HCS-D
Clinical Product Development
Corridor
Sharon Seaton has 30 years of varied Home Health and Hospice experience in clinical and senior management, as well as experience in compliance in both for-profit and non-profit organizations. Her focus has been on quality, compliance and education. As an Executive Director, her agency won an award for Hospice of the Year for growth and quality scores. She also was the recipient of a Rotary International grant for rural hospice care and served as a board member for the Colorado Hospice and Palliative Care Association. She is currently an Clinical Product Development Specialist at The Corridor Group. Sharon has been a featured speaker at conferences across the U.S. showcasing both Hospice and Home Health coding and compliance.
Mandy Hager
Executive Director
Suncrest Hospice of Colorado
Mandy Hager is an innovative hospice leader with over 20 years in the industry. With an undergraduate degree in accounting and a MBA from Regis University with an emphasis in Accounting and Finance - from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude - Ms. Hager began her hospice career in one of the first free standing hospices in the United States. As the VP of Finance/CFO non-profit 501 (c)3 community-based hospice she was an integral member of the Executive Leadership Team who help grow the program from $3M in annual revenues to over $15M in just a few short years.
After 10 years at the free standing, not for profit, 501(c)3 community-based hospice, Mandy was given the opportunity to spearhead a start-up hospice company for a national health care leader and for the next eight years with grit and determination built that hospice into a multimillion-dollar powerhouse in the community. With a love for seniors and a heart for patients and families facing end of life, Mandy most recently led a $5M M&A for a $42M hospice with four locations throughout the state of Colorado. Today, Mandy consults on end of life issues and helps families decide on the best course of action for their loved ones.
Angelo Spinola
Attorney
Polsinelli PC
With two decades of legal experience, Angelo Spinola's practice focuses on employment litigation with a special interest in the home health, home care and hospice industry. Bringing a wide breadth of knowledge across the health care spectrum, he works with an array of home-based care clients, including Fortune 500 organizations and franchisors, small-owned businesses and franchisees across multiple industries. Additionally, Angelo works closely with private equity firms and investment groups with respect to labor and employment issues that may arise during acquisitions and activities in these sectors.
Angelo partners with attorneys in Polsinelli's Health Care, Corporate and Transactional and Franchise practices to build coalitions that bring a deep bench of experience and industry knowledge to his clients in the home health, home care and hospice industry.
Leveraging technology to better serve clients, Angelo utilizes innovative legal technology platforms designed specifically for franchise systems and home health, home care and hospice clients. The platform serves as a source for industry information and substantive legal resources where employers have direct access to the tools, documents and knowledge needed to reduce their legal spend as their business needs grow throughout the corporate lifecycle and franchise process. Angelo also utilizes client portals to share confidential, proprietary client documents to allow clients and Angelo to seamlessly manage matters or case-specific documents.
Gregory Jones
Attorney
Polsinelli PC
Gregory Jones is an attorney in the firm's Health Care Litigation practice. He is a distinguished litigator with more than 16 years of experience defending clients in a variety of health care litigation matters. Greg represents a broad range of health care companies, including health systems, hospitals, medical providers, physicians, and physician groups, in lawsuits and arbitrations involving a wide array of disputes, including claims for unfair competition and business practices, health insurance fraud, antitrust, breach of contract, false advertising, and other business torts. He also defends clients in qui tam actions brought under the Federal False Claims Act, the California False Claims Act and the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act. Based in the firm's Los Angeles office, Greg has litigated and tried cases in federal and state courts throughout the country, including California, New York, Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Virginia, Washington, D.C., New Mexico and Delaware.
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