2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Monday, August 15—Thursday, August 18, 2022 | Chicago, IL
Get the latest guidance for accurate coding & compliance
The 2022 Home Health Coding Summit is your one-stop shop to get intermediate and advanced code training! Join us and get a first look at the FY2023 codes, guideline and OASIS changes! We will set you up with the tools and resources you need to succeed so you can sit for your coding credential, earn CEUs, and advance your career. It's no wonder coders across the nation consider the Coding Summit a priority investment year after year.
In addition to intense code training, here’s what we have in store for you in 2022:
- Special Preconference on Compliance – Learn how to create a culture of compliance with best practices for properly managing an episode from intake to discharge.
- 30+ hours of intermediate and advanced code training, including interactive scenario sessions in which you’ll work in groups with expert instructors.
- Specialty code training for advanced coders – Delve into the most complicated home health cases and work through actual patient documentation to find the right codes.
- OASIS-E prep for coders and QA professionals – Dive into the changes coming to the OASIS and learn how OASIS, coding and the plan of care need to work hand-in-hand – a can’t miss training for those who want to become dual-certified.
- Access to the nation’s leading home health & hospice coding experts – Learn from a lineup of the industry’s most trusted and forward-thinking trainers.
- Welcome & networking reception – Connect with others who share you same passion.
- Fun coding games and exciting door prizes!
IMPORTANT: The 2022 Home Health Coding Summit is intended to provide home health coding education at an intermediate and advanced level. It is not intended for beginner coders. You are at an Intermediate level if you have been coding in home health for at least 1 year and either plan to sit for your HCS-D credential immediately following the conference or became credentialed in the past year. This track is also appropriate for those coders who completed the Ultimate Training Coding Basics course. You are at an Advanced level if you are an HCS-D certified coder with 3+ years in home health coding and consider yourself an expert, and/or are an experienced QA/QI specialist who is dual-certified (HCS-D, HCS-O).
2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Agenda
Pre-Conference: Monday, August 15, 2022
Preconference A: Compliance Best Practices from Intake to Discharge7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. 9:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. Tool: RCD self-assessment checklist for agency audit risk 10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. 10:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m 1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Tool: Physician face-to-face encounter compliance checklist 2:25 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Preconference B: OASIS-E Introduction & Best Practices7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. Note: This class is not an item-by-item training session. It aims to present the core OASIS concepts as well as introduce the changes coming with OASIS-E. This class is intended to lay the groundwork as you build your OASIS foundation. The core concepts that will be discussed include OASIS intent, eligible patients and who completes the OASIS, differences in OASIS time points (SOC, ROC, FU, TRN, DC, DAH), data reporting regulations/OASIS CoP, how OASIS and the plan of care work together, and the impact of data accuracy on PDGM. You’ll also get a high-level look at how to use the Guidance Manual, including key conventions and terms you need to understand to accurately review the OASIS. You’ll also get a rundown of the key OASIS-E item changes, including the sections that are changing entirely. And you’ll learn the intent of the sections, including which items are QRP items, which ones are process measures, and which ones aim to bridge the gap between other post-acute providers and home health. Learn how OASIS-E impacts payment and outcomes, as well as Five-Star ratings and Value-Based Purchasing (VBP). 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m 1:10 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Main Conference Day 1: Tuesday, August 16, 2022
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast—Exhibits Open
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
State of Coding: Code & Guidance Updates, PDGM Changes, and More!
Lisa Selman-Holman, JD, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, COS-C, VP of Quality and Education – McBee Associates, Inc
Get a high-level overview of all the key code and guidance changes that will impact your home health coding starting October 1, 2022. Also get an update on PDGM, OASIS, Review Choice Demonstration, and other regulatory changes that will affect your coding and QA.
9:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.
Keys to Coder-Clinician Collaboration: Get Your Coding and Documentation In Line or Risk Denials
Sherri Parson, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, COS-C, BCHH-C, HSC-H, Post-Acute Education Senior Manager – McBee Associates, Inc
Learn best practices for working with clinicians to get appropriate documentation. Understand what to do when you can’t get the documentation you need, how to work together to create compliant queries and find a PDGM-compliant diagnosis, how to reconcile a diagnosis that contradicts the documentation, and how to resolve disagreements between the coder and clinician on diagnosis assignment. Finally, go over each person’s role and responsibilities when it comes to assigning diagnoses.
Tool: Audit checklist to ensure coding matches documentation
10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.
Networking & Refreshment Break
10:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Understand and Address the Legal and Ethical Standards of Coding
Claudia Baker, RN, MHA, HCS-D, HCS-O, Director of Compliance – Compassus
Mining for diagnoses and coding from prior episodes, upcoding, switching diagnoses to keep someone on service—all of these can lead to fraud, financial penalties, loss of your credential, and at worst jail time. Some of these practices are inadvertent and unintentional. Learn how to differentiate between compliant vs. noncompliant agency coding practices, how to make proper corrections, and what to do when your boss is asking you to code something you know is upcoding. Get specific examples of when to lean on the coding guidelines and how to avoid the most common upcoding errors.
12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m
Networking Lunch—Provided
After Lunch you will have a choice of Two Tracks: Choose your track based on your level of coding competency and experience.
Track 1: Intermediate Coder’s TrackTRACK 1: Intermediate Coder’s Track 1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. 2:25 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m |
Track 2: Advanced Coder’s Track
1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. 2:25 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m |
Main Conference Day 2: Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Track 1: Intermediate Coder’s TrackTRACK 1: Intermediate Coder’s Track 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. 9:25 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. 10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. 10:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m 1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. 2:25 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Track 2: Advanced Coder’s TrackTRACK 2: Advanced Coder’s Track 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. 10:55 a.m. – 12:10 p.m. 12:10 p.m. – 1:10 p.m 1:10 p.m. – 2:25 p.m.
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. |
Main Conference Day 3: Thursday, August 18, 2022
Track 1: Intermediate Coder’s TrackTRACK 1: Intermediate Coder’s Track 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. |
Track 2: Advanced Coder’s TrackTRACK 2: Advanced Coder’s Track 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. |
2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Speakers
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Claudia Baker, RN, MHA, HCS-D, HCS-O, is the director of compliance audit for Compassus. Baker is a senior home care executive with experience in compliance, quality improvement, and operational management. She has excellent leadership and analytical skills with a solid background in regulatory oversight, process workflows, and direct management for home health, hospice, and private duty settings. Baker has spent 29 of her 37 years in healthcare focusing on home-based services. She is certified in diagnosis coding and OASIS specialties. Her experience in the technology and consulting fields provide her with the tools to educate and support these industries. |
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J’non Griffin, RN, MHA, HCS-D, HCS-H, COS-C, HCS-C, is Principal at SimiTree Healthcare Consultants. Griffin brings over 34 years of experience as an RN in home healthcare. She has served as a field nurse, director of staff development and appeals, and executive with multiple home health and hospice agencies. She has also worked as the regional director of operations and served as the acting compliance officer. Griffin is a seasoned educator, published author, and national speaker. She has been a frequent contributor to industry publications, including DecisionHealth’s Diagnosis Coding Pro. She has published several manuals and assisted with the composition of several online modules for coding and OASIS instruction. |
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Arlynn Hansell, PT, HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O, COS-C, is the director of education, coding, and OASIS for SimiTree Healthcare Consulting, has been a physical therapist in the home health and SNF settings since October 1998, holding positions of therapist, rehab manager, and quality/compliance assurance. Hansell is appointed to the AHCC board, where she serves as the BMSC liaison. She is a past member of the American Physical Therapy Association, where she served as the Vice President of the Home Health Section. She manages the creation and editing of the HCS-D, HCS-O, HCS-H certification exams, and is the editor of the Home Care Clinical Specialist – OASIS online guidance and the HCS-O Study Guide. |
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Sharon Harder is president of C3 Advisors, LLC. Harder oversees all home health and hospice client projects, the majority of which are focused on compliance issues including scheduled Medicare/Medicaid compliance audits, acquisition due diligence, preparation of responses to investigations, and labor/compensation issues. In addition, Harder was a founder of a successful pediatric healthcare company providing center-based extended care to medically fragile patients along with home health, medical equipment, and infusion services offered in partnership with major children’s hospitals. She is a frequent speaker on home health and hospice regulatory issues and has authored numerous articles on key industry topics, including recent contributions on Value-Based Purchasing, emergency preparedness, and the Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). |
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Robert W. Markette Jr., JD, CHC, HCS-C, is an attorney at Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, PC in Indianapolis, and over the past 15 years has focused his practice on representing home health, hospice, private duty, and DME providers in all aspects of their operations. Markette works with his clients on issues related to Medicare/Medicaid compliance, including state and federal survey findings and appeals; payer issues and audit appeals; HIPAA compliance; and Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, including developing and implementing compliance programs, performing internal investigations, and representing providers in external investigations and civil and criminal matters. He also assists clients with purchasing and selling agencies and addresses legal issues related to employment matters such as wage and hour compliance, investigations, and disputes. Markette serves on both the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance and the Board of the Association for Home Care Compliance.© |
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Arlene Maxim, RN, HCS-C, is a home health and hospice expert with A.D. Maxim Holdings, LLC, and is a frequently sought-after speaker in all areas of patient care quality, analysis, and administrative functions in the postacute healthcare world. She is a board member and vice chair for the AHCC. With more than 40 years of nursing experience, Maxim previously co-founded regional multimillion-dollar Medicare certified home healthcare companies, hospital-based homecare and hospice companies, and transitional care programs. Early in her nursing career, she combined her clinical knowledge with her homecare/hospice interests and began working as a consultant in the homecare and hospice field in 1986. |
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Nanette Minton, RN, CHPCA, HCS-D, HCS-H, is the Senior Clinical Coding Manager at MAC Legacy. Serving in a leadership capacity for more than 20 years, Minton has held a variety of roles in the home care and hospice industry, including clinical, administrative, consulting, education, and agency startup and development. She provides day-to-day coding and quality support to the home care and hospice agencies receiving coding services. She also serves as a consultant for quality and regulatory issues that arise due to the complex and integrated nature of coding. Minton’s experience in the industry gives her a unique perspective and allows her to provide coding and audit knowledge firsthand to clients. |
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Sherri Parson RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, COS-C, BCHH-C, HSC-H, Post-Acute Education Senior Manager with McBee Associates, Inc., brings more than 25 years of healthcare experience to her role at McBee as Post-Acute Education Senior Manager. Earning her RN license in 1994, Sherri started her career providing direct care first in hospital settings, including Medical Surgical, ICU and Interventional Radiology before transitioning to home health. Sherri has been an in-home provider of skilled-nursing services, as well as developing expertise in quality assurance, diagnosis coding, OASIS review and regulatory compliance. Sherri further developed her home health expertise as a therapy manager, staff educator, quality metric analysis and development expert. Sherri’s vast experience in home health prepared her for her current role where she is responsible client and staff education and development of McBee Post-Acute Academy. In addition to providing staff and client training and education, Sherri travels around the country to present at state home care association meetings, national events, and to provide on-site, in-service programs to agencies. Other accomplishments include adjunct professor and developer of a college Home Health Coding Course. Sherri has authored numerous articles and is frequently sought after for her expertise by publications such as Home Health Line, Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health, Home Care Week by AAPC, OASIS & Outcomes Solutions and Home Healthline. Sherri currently serves on the AHCC’s Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance Certification HCS-H Committee. |
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Lisa Selman-Holman, JD, BSN, RN, HCS-D, HCS-O, COS-C, brings more than 35 years of experience in the home health and hospice industry as vice president of quality and education at McBee. In her role, Selman-Holman specializes in regulatory compliance, both as an RN and a home care attorney. She founded Selman-Holman CoDR (Coding Done Right), a coding outsource and audit company, which was acquired by McBee in 2021. Selman-Holman leads quality audit team members to ensure the highest- level of accuracy in coding and clinical documentation internally at McBee and externally for clients nationwide. She is working to expand McBee’s educational offerings, including live events and on-demand online trainings through the McBee Post-Acute Academy. She is the past chair of the Board of Medical Specialty Coding and Compliance (BMSC) and is an originator of the Homecare Coding Specialist-Diagnosis (HCS-D), Homecare Clinical Specialist-OASIS (HCS-O), and Homecare Coding Specialist-Hospice (HCS-H) credentials. She is an AHIMA CM Trainer. |
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Brandi Whitemyer, RN, CDIP, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, has expertise in ICD-10 coding, postacute billing, and coding education, along with OASIS and outcomes management. She has more than 18 years of experience in postacute healthcare as the previous owner of a full-service coding and consulting company, along with experience in the development of coding, billing/revenue cycle, and clinical education resources for postacute care. Whitemyer has worked for the past 12 years as a consultant and home health and hospice coding expert, providing agencies nationally with survey compliance; medical reviews and appeals of Medicare denials; corrective action plans; policy development; revenue cycle and billing compliance management; coding and quality assurance processes; and coding and OASIS education. She has also contributed to and created multiple print and electronic product resources focused on coding, billing, quality management, and clinical best practices. She contributed to multiple print and electronic DecisionHealth publications and acted as the lead technical editor on the 2018, 2019, and 2020 Optum postacute ICD-10 manuals. Whitemyer is a member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance (AHCC). |
2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Location
Hilton Chicago/Oak Brook Hills Resort & Conference Center
3500 Midwest Road
Oak Brook, IL 60523
- Room rate: $169.00/night
- Hotel cut-off date: Friday, July 22, 2022
- Reservation Center: https://www.hilton.com/en/attend-my-event/chibhhh-simpli-d464135b-b295-42c8-bd6a-7edcafe2457f/
- Hotel website: https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/chibhhh-hilton-chicago-oak-brook-hills-resort-and-conference-center/
Simplify Compliance/DecisionHealth has no affiliation with any third-party companies or travel assistance providers. Rooms should be booked directly with the event hotel using the official information provided, reservations will be taken on space and rate availability.
2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Pricing
Retail price: $1,295.00
AHCC Member pricing: $1,195.00
PreCon + Main Con (Kit): $1,769.00
PreCon + Main Con (Kit) AHCC Member: $1,669.00
Preconference A: $599.00
Preconference B: $599.00
2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Continuing Education
ANCC
HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- Pre-Conference A (Compliance): 6.25 CEUs
- Pre-Conference B (OASIS-E): 7.0 CEUs
- Main Conference: 15.5 CEUs
BMSC
This program is preapproved by the Board of Medical Specialty Coding & Compliance (BMSC) for the following CEUs:
- Pre-Conference A (Compliance): 6 HCS-D, 2 HCS-H, 6 HCS-O, and 6 HCS-C CEUs
- Pre-Conference B (OASIS-E): 4 HCS-D, 6 HCS-O, and 6 HCS-C CEUs
- Main Conference: 15 HCS-D, 15 HCS-H, 4 HCS-O, and 5 HCS-C CEUs
**If you’re interested in becoming credentialed (HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-O), learn more here.
Nursing Contact Hours
HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The number of nursing contact hours is pending.
2022 Home Health Coding Summit
Health & Safety
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- Per current CDC guidelines, if the county where our event is located is deemed to be within the high level of COVID-19, it will be recommended that all attendees, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks when indoors except while actively eating or drinking.
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