2024 Home Care Symposium

Welcome Address
Michelle Houlihan, Associate Vice President, MEDITECH

Keynote: Home Health Value-Based Purchasing: Are We Ready for 2025? 
Cindy Krafft, PT, MS, HCS-O, K&K Health Care Solutions
Just when providers were getting their initial reports in 2023 and developing strategies to improve results, CMS announced plans to change several of the measurements in substantial ways. The pivot to the GG items to assess functional abilities and how “improvement” is determined, combined with an adjustment to the hospitalization measure, have a baseline year of 2023 data. 2024 will require a focus on both the current and future factors used in the HHVBP model. Join Cindy Krafft as she addresses these planned changes and provides insights into effective planning for home health value-based purchasing in 2025 and beyond.

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Agency Profile: Logan Health
Jodie Thole, RN, Supervisor, Logan Health
Sherry Schauble, Business Office Supervisor, CPC, Logan Health
Tom Sturzen, Application Specialist, Logan Health
Join Logan Health for an in-depth look at its organization and workflows. This session will cover a wide range of topics, including staffing/training, new service line office additions, referrals/admissions, IT programs, palliative care & hospice, MEDITECH acute integration, home care working relationships, and more.

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The New PMP
Kevin McElhaney, Supervisor, Client Services, MEDITECH
Discover MEDITECH’s Home Care Performance Management Program (PMP), with a look at what's new, including a refresher of existing reports, a peek at new financial reports, and how we plan to move forward.

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Sepsis in Home Care
Cheryl Adams, RN, BSN, MBA, At-Home Healthcare Administrator, Sparta Community Hospital
Home care professionals can save lives with the early identification of sepsis symptoms. This session, led by MEDITECH Home Care user and agency leader Cheryl Adams, will focus on the relevance of sepsis to home health reform, strategies to reduce rehospitalizations and mortality rates, and recognizing sepsis risks.

Kickoff/Strategy, Development, and the Future of Home Care
Kristen Martino, Product Manager, Strategy, MEDITECH
Members of MEDITECH’s Home Care Development Team
Let's take a glimpse into the future with this dual presentation that includes a review of the Home Care solution stream and a discussion with the Home Care development team.

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The Best Functionality You Never Use
Hinda Polyakov, Senior Specialist, Client Services, MEDITECH
Are you getting the most out of Home Care? Learn how the PDGM HIPPS is generated and how to troubleshoot discrepancies in payments. This session also reviews Client Billing and Billing-Only setup, as well as Recurring Charges workflows.

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Managing the Health of the Home Care Revenue Cycle
Lucy Tenai, Analyst, Client Services, MEDITECH
Learn about the Home Care tools and reports that your agency can use to optimize the health of your financial checks and balances.

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Managing Your Manage Tasks
Teresa Reddick, Specialist, Client Services, MEDITECH
Kimberly Malmborg, Specialist, Client Services, MEDITECH
Have you ever wondered why a "Manage" task mysteriously showed up on your task list? In this session, we will review the origins of the various clinical and financial “Manage” tasks and how to use them more effectively.

Kickoff
Michelle Houlihan, Associate Vice President, MEDITECH

What’s Your Status: Patient Status as a Key to Clinical Processes
Ella Hayes, Senior Specialist, Client Services, MEDITECH
During this session, we’ll explore the effect the patient’s service status has on available Home Care workflows, including dropping assessments, discharge, and admissions.

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Building an Interactive Remote Patient Monitoring Program
Milt Biliouris, Supervisor, Technical Services Specialists, MEDITECH
Join our telehealth vendor partner Health Recovery Solutions (HRS)  and MEDITECH Home Care staff for an overview and demonstration of the telehealth integration between HRS and Home Care.

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Cybersecurity Risk & Home Care
Thomas Moriarty, Manager, Information Security, MEDITECH
Hear from MEDITECH's Information Security Manager for a discussion on cybersecurity topics and scenarios, including what we can learn from real-world incidents. We'll also focus on cultivating good user behavior in common homecare staff scenarios.

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Bringing Out the Best in Clinicians: Making Fine Tuning Count
Mark Bassett, RN, Lead Software Designer, Home Care Client Services, MEDITECH
Agencies face extraordinary pressure to raise quality and decrease cost, all while struggling to maintain staffing levels and motivation. This RN-led session will help you take an active role in optimizing your system’s clinical standards. We'll explore specific examples of how agencies have fine-tuned their systems to improve both the user and supervisor experience.

Closing Remarks
Josh Lamkin, Senior Analyst, Regulatory & Health IT Compliance, MEDITECH