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2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
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Calling all home health leaders this is your event! Join us May 14-16, 2025, at DecisionHealth’s Home Health Administrator’s Summit in Las Vegas to share success stories and strategize for the future with other home health leaders and agency heads from around the nation.
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2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
Wednesday, May 14 — Friday, May 16, 2025 | Las Vegas, NV
Calling all home health leaders—this is your event! Join us May 14–16, 2025, at DecisionHealth's Home Health Administrator's Summit in Las Vegas, to share success stories and strategize for the future with other home health leaders and agency heads from around the nation.
With the demands for home care continuing to rise, the 2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit will provide best practices for recruiting and retaining top talent, and provide strategies for growing your company and improving your bottom line.
More specifically, explore the following key topics so you can learn leverage opportunities and combat challenges facing the home health industry, including:
- Obtain proven recruitment and retention best practices that will take your agency to the next level, presented during our summit preconference
- Get an industry update and look ahead from the new CEO of the National Alliance for Care at Home
- Artificial intelligence (AI): Learn how to achieve greater efficiencies while avoiding legal risks
- Create a data-driven sales culture that accelerates your growth
- HHVBP: Shift your training efforts, get payment bonuses
- Embrace payer mix transitions and thrive amid change
- Optimize your business with benchmark and budget KPIs
- Compliance: Address both top survey citations and medical review denial reasons
- Bonus: Home care companies that provide both Medicare and non-Medicare home care services or are looking to expand into either area, bring an additional person as these two events will run concurrently. Click here to learn more.
Join us and connect with industry leaders to help your agency create a plan of action for the future. Plus, you'll receive a multitude of tools and charts to use for enhancing your business.
2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
Pre-Conference
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Take Your Recruitment & Retention to the Next Level
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Registration & Networking Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Invest in Professional Growth, Become the Employer and Provider of Choice, Reap Positive Retention Results
Michelle Cone, Senior Vice President of Training and Brand Programs, HomeWell
Empower your clinical team to thrive and stay longer by investing in their professional growth and enhancing their competency skills. In this session, we’ll discuss how to become the employer of choice—not only by offering competitive salaries and benefits but also by fostering career development, implementing workforce incentive programs, promoting work-life balance, and providing flexible schedules. Additionally, reinvigorate your agency's reputation as the go-to provider by boosting brand awareness through community engagement and positioning yourself as both the employer of choice and the provider of choice in your local community.
9:15 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
Networking Refreshment Break
9:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Craft Compensation Models to Support Increased Productivity and Quality Outcomes
Angela Huff, Senior Managing Consultant, Forvis Mazars
Explore evolving compensation models for Medicare home health agencies that balance productivity against the increased need for better documentation and quality patient outcomes. Stay on top of regulatory shifts, such as Home Health Value-Based Purchasing, and adapt clinician incentives in a way that motivates them to work toward your agency’s quality outcome goals. You’ll gain a better understanding of how to factor in key market trends to ensure your agency remains competitive when it comes to attracting top talent.
Tool: Sample Home Health Outcome-Based Performance Improvement Results
11:00 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.
Leverage Geographic Workforce Data to Focus Staff in Areas of Need
Moderator:
Deborah R. Hoyt, Senior Vice President of Public Policy, Axxess
Panelists:
Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CCM, Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, Humana, Inc.
Clark Ruttinger, MPA, MBA, Director of Health Workforce Consulting, GlobalData
Accept more patients, optimize clinical efficiency, and gain profitability when you use state-specific workforce data to redistribute a greater supply of workers to regions where there is demand. This dynamic panel of experts will lead an interactive demonstration of the Health Resources and Services Administration’s online dashboard providing national workforce supply, demand, and distribution data specific to home health. Plus, Humana will share its strategies for addressing staffing demand by leveraging telehealth and more to serve a wider area while maintaining quality outcomes and favorable Five-Star ratings under value-based care delivery. Attendees will receive a roadmap of actionable strategies to take back to their leadership teams.
Tools: Workforce Projections Dashboard and National Center for Health Workforce Analysis
12:10 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Networking Lunch
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Legal Q&A: Address Compliance Issues Around Staffing & Employment Law
Robert W. Markette Jr., JD, CHC, HCS-C, Attorney, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman
Bring your specific questions about workforce management and employment law compliance. Join the discussion on challenges related to Department of Labor and Federal Trade Commission rules as well as how to achieve compliance with compensation plans, disciplinary action, workplace violence prevention programs, and more. Plus, get an inside look at the latest on recent Supreme Court cases that impact employment discrimination claims.
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Networking Refreshment Break
2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Attract Top Talent With Research-Backed Communications Strategies
Katy Barnett, Director of Home Care and Hospice Operations and Policy, LeadingAge
Attracting and recruiting qualified staff is a challenge in today’s ultracompetitive labor market and a top priority for home health employers. The Opening Doors to the Aging Services Workforce research initiative, created by LeadingAge, addresses a key question: How do you attract a candidate to aging services and home healthcare? Session attendees will gain insights into potential employees’ perceptions of our sector and learn research-backed strategies on how best to talk to them about employment in the home health field, as well as tools and tips to prepare effective job descriptions and communications.
Tools: Workforce Recruitment Tools, Message Frame and Language Guide
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Welcome & Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall.
All conference attendees welcome! Connect with others like yourself and shop the exhibit hall for the latest solutions.
— Agenda subject to change —
2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
Welcome & Networking Reception - Wednesday, May 14, 2025
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In the Exhibit Hall
Agenda
Main Conference Day 1 — Thursday, May 15, 2025
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Registration and Networking Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Look Into the Future of Home Health & Hospice With Dr. Steven Landers
Steven Landers, MD, MPH, CEO, NAHC-NHPCO Alliance
Don’t miss your chance to look into the future of home health and hospice from the CEO of The Alliance (NAHC-NHPCO). Dr. Steven Landers will touch on the future of home health, including key regulatory developments around Home Health Value-Based Purchasing, medical review, staffing shortages, and new opportunities in palliative care and Hospital at Home partnerships. He’ll also outline the impact and opportunities from market changes related to market consolidation, pay cuts, Medicaid HCBS, Medicare Advantage, and other innovative solutions that are reshaping care delivery.
9:15 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.
Networking Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
9:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
All About AI: Tips to Avoid Risk & Innovative Ideas for Greater Efficiency
Beau Sorensen, COO, First Choice Home Health & Hospice
Embrace the benefits of AI while minimizing legal and regulatory risks that could arise without policies governing its use. This session will explore some of the most popular tools being adopted in home health to create efficiencies not just for clinical processes but also for operations, digital marketing, customer care, and hiring. Walk through recent lawsuits related to the growing use of ambient listening and receive guidance for avoiding similar risks when rolling out new technology solutions.
Tool: Process Readiness Tool
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
What’s New With HHVBP: Shift Your Training Efforts for Speedy Rewards
Lisa McClammy, BSN, RN, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, Senior Clinical Education Consultant, MAC Legacy
Keep pace with CMS’ continuous changes to Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP), including the addition of measures to the payment calculation and the adjustment of weights for existing measures. Training should focus on areas such as improvement in dyspnea and management of oral medications, while also incorporating the new OASIS-based discharge function (DC Function) score. Stay focused on HHCAHPS scores and preventing hospitalizations with enhanced attention to outpatient stays that are included in the Potentially Preventable Hospitalization (PPH) measure.
Tools: Comprehensive Toolkit with Practical Strategies for Success in Key HHVBP Areas
12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Networking Lunch in Exhibit Hall
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Embrace Payer Mix Transitions & Thrive Amid Change
Alicia Marr, RN, BSN, CEO, Excelin Home Care
Embrace change needed to keep up with your evolving payer mix. Discover how Excelin Home Care shifted to accommodate more than 50% of its patients who now required authorizations and had shortened billing requirements. They’ll share the relevant KPI data they tracked, moves to scale and automate, and how they maintained resources and excellence around quality and compliance, which is key to negotiate better rate terms. They even added a new position to secure better rates and contract terms.
Tool: KPIs for Payer Mix Shift
2:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Networking Refreshment Break and Exhibit Hall Finale
2:50 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Benchmark and Budget for Success: How to Optimize Your Business for Healthy Profits
Thomas Rose, CEO and President, 21st Century Healthcare Consultants
Elevate your business leadership skills and propel your agency to new heights. This session will outline the KPIs you should be tracking and how to leverage that data to set goals, create budgets, and develop business plans for future growth. Walk through essential areas to track and monitor KPIs related to marketing and sales, clinical operations, quality improvement, workforce management, recruitment, and retention. Explore common areas where home health agencies are weak and uncover best practices for strengthening those areas by creating efficiencies, generating more revenue, and cutting costs.
Tool: Sample KPI Dashboards and Sample Business Plan
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Welcome & Networking Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Main Conference Day 2 — Friday, May 16, 2025
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Compliance Moves to Minimize Risk With Surveys and Payment Reviews
Kimberly Skehan, RN, MSN, COS-C, Vice President of Accreditation, Community Health Accreditation Partner
Streamline your home health compliance efforts by addressing both top survey citations and medical review denial reasons at once. Discover what’s new with survey guidance and how to comply with the level 1 tags, including the three new emergency preparedness standards, as well as tips for avoiding common payment denials. Discuss ways that surveyors are erroneously citing payment rules and medical review auditors are quoting Conditions of Participation so you can defend your agency. Finally, walk through steps to build an effective compliance program that addresses both regulatory and payment risks.
Tool: Sample Home Health Compliance Audit Monitoring Form
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Networking Refreshment Break
9:35 a.m. – 10:50 a.m.
Redefining Marketing and Sales: Create a Data-Driven Sales Culture That Accelerates Your Growth
Thomas Rose, CEO and President, 21st Century Health Care Consultants
Don’t miss out on referral opportunities that could skyrocket your growth. Discover how to use CMS data to extract clues about where to focus marketing and sales efforts to capture missed referrals. Return to your agency with fresh insights for developing your go-to-market strategy and executable plan. Additionally, prepare yourself to coach and incentivize your sales team to achieve your targets and maximize your intake for greater efficiency and results.
Tool: Data Research Roadmap and Sample Go-to-Market Strategy
10:50 a.m.
Conference Concludes
— Agenda subject to change —
2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
Speakers
| Katy Barnett is the director of home care and hospice operations and policy at LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit providers of aging services. She leads the association's work on regulatory and operational issues and initiatives. In one-on-one meetings as well as written correspondence with federal officials and regulatory agency staff, she keeps the policy and rule-related concerns of LeadingAge's members on policymakers' agendas. Barnett's experience in home health and hospice includes working with the following groups: Pew Charitable Trusts' End-of-Life Care Project; the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (now part of LeadingAge); and the Eldercare Workforce Alliance, a coalition dedicated to training the workforce to care for an aging America. | |
| Michelle Cone, senior vice president of training and brand programs for HomeWell, is a dynamic leader and McKnight's Pinnacle Award for Thought Leadership winner with over 25 years of experience in the post-acute care space, specializing in operations, strategy, compliance, and business development. Before joining HomeWell Franchising in 2016, she worked with many of the top healthcare facilities and home care agencies across the U.S. Today, Cone equips HomeWell's franchise owners with brand programs and training, and she's designed and developed HomeWell's Talent Management Program, which has led HomeWell to a 70% 90-day retention rate. | |
| Kathy Driscoll, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CCM, is the senior vice president and chief nursing officer at Humana, where she oversees Humana's community of over 10,000 nurses, care managers, social workers, and therapists. Under Driscoll's leadership, Humana has partnered with nearly 40 universities and funded the CenterWell Home Health Lab at Emory University to help address the nursing shortage and prepare nursing students for careers in home health. Driscoll is also a Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of experience in nursing. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Seton Hall University and a Master of Science in Nursing Management and Executive Leadership from Sacred Heart University. Driscoll also serves as president of the Board of Trustees for the American Nurses Foundation and is on the Editorial Board for Case Management Today. | |
| Deborah R. Hoyt is the senior vice president of public policy for Axxess. She has 30 years of experience as a healthcare leader across the provider and payer continuum. She specializes in federal legislative and regulatory affairs, grassroots advocacy, and corporate communications. Prior to joining Axxess, Hoyt was the CEO for the Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home, working directly with home health, hospice, and personal care agency providers and industry leaders to advance policy at the state level for healthcare delivery at home. Prior to her Association work, Hoyt was a government affairs leader at health payers Aetna and ConnectiCare. | |
| Angela Huff, senior managing consultant at Forvis Mazars, is a member of Forvis National Healthcare Group and provides consulting services to home care, hospice, and palliative care clients. With 34 years of experience as a Registered Nurse, she has spent the last 19 years in executive leadership in home health and hospice operations and software development in the post-acute space. Her operations and compliance expertise includes performing operations assessments, compliance-focused documentation reviews, and appeals related to the OIG and Program Integrity Contractors. Huff also is a member of the Home Health Financial Managers Association Education and Women in Leadership Committees. | |
| Steven Landers, MD, MPH, is the inaugural CEO of NAHC-NHPCO Alliance. Dr. Landers is a recognized national leader and innovator in home health, primary care, and aging services, and brings almost two decades of experience as a physician, executive leader, and health policy advocate to The Alliance. Early in his career, Dr. Landers provided house calls and thousands of home visits, primarily to low-mobility patients. Prior to joining The Alliance, he served as the director of home care at the Cleveland Clinic, CEO of the Visiting Nurse Association Health Group, Inc., and president and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife. Dr. Landers has represented organizations by testifying for Congress and state legislators and discussing home care policies and regulations with HHS, CMS, MedPAC, and federal agency staff. | |
| Robert W. Markette Jr., JD, CHC, HCS-C, is an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman and focuses on representing home health, hospice, and private duty providers in all aspects of their operations. With more than 15 years of experience in these industries, he has assisted clients in many areas related to Medicare and Medicaid compliance, survey response, and state and federal appeals of survey findings. Markette is also a frequent speaker on home health, hospice, and private duty matters across the country, presenting to the American Health Lawyers Association and the National Association for Home Care & Hospice, as well as other national and state events. | |
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Alicia Marr, RN, BSN, serves as the CEO of Excelin Health, bringing over two decades of experience in post-acute care to her role. Assuming leadership in 2019, Marr has steered Excelin Health to the forefront of the health care industry. Her extensive background includes leadership roles in various settings, including privately owned, private equity–backed, and publicly traded companies, with a specialization in home health, hospice, and private duty services. Under Marr's guidance, Excelin Health operates 22 care delivery sites across California, Texas, and Louisiana, ensuring high-quality care for patients in need. With a strategic focus on innovation and operational scalability, Marr continues to drive excellence in patient care, cementing Excelin Health's position as a healthcare leader. |
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| Lisa McClammy, BSN, RN, COS-C, HCS-D, HCS-O, is a senior clinical education consultant with MAC Legacy and has more than 27 years of diverse nursing experience. Her clinical and regulatory expertise in the home care industry serves as the foundation for providing agencies with solutions to ensure compliance and quality improvement. She provides consulting and education on various topics, including OASIS, RCD, mock surveys, clinical audits, and regulatory compliance. McClammy serves on the Association of Home Care Coding & Compliance Advisory Board, is a member of the DecisionHealth HCS-O Exam Committee, and is a CHAP and ACHC Certified Consultant. | |
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Thomas Rose is CEO and president of 21st Century Health Care Consultants. His Fortune 50 C-level expertise applied to over two decades of small to mid-sized business leadership enables him to guide home health leaders looking to grow their businesses. He’s a former Army Special Forces officer (Green Berets), and his business experience includes a successful leadership track in the General Electric companies, including titles such as director Six Sigma quality, director sales and e-business, VP operations, and chief financial officer. In more recent years, Rose focused his career on growing or turning around smaller to mid-sized PE-backed, middle-market businesses from a variety of sectors, including healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, and facilities maintenance. |
| Clark Ruttinger, MPA, MBA, is the director of health workforce consulting at GlobalData and past president of the board of directors for The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers. Ruttinger leads the team that provides projection modeling of health workforce supply and demand for the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration. His team also provides health workforce modeling for professional associations such as the American Association of Medical Colleges and The American Physical Therapy Association. The team also works with several state hospital associations, state health departments, and state nursing workforce centers to produce projections and analysis for advocacy purposes. It is currently doing work in the states of Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Hawaii. | |
| Kimberly Skehan, RN, MSN, COS-C, is the vice president of accreditation for Community Health Accreditation Partner. She has over 30 years of clinical, management, and consulting experience in home health and hospice operations, regulatory compliance, risk management, and survey readiness. She has extensive experience assisting clients with federal and state government audits, appeals, and OIG review activities and has supported agencies through state survey and deemed status accreditation, education, and plan of correction follow-up. Skehan has served as an approved independent consultant who monitored agencies' regulatory compliance for a state survey agency and CMS and has served as a liaison to state and federal regulatory agencies and legislators. She plays an active role in committee work at the state and federal level. | |
| Beau Sorensen is the director of finance and operations at First Choice Home Health and Hospice in Orem, Utah. He has over 25 years of experience in home health and hospice and has extensive knowledge of healthcare systems and processes. Sorensen has worked with organizations across the U.S. to help them better use their EMRs and the data in their systems. As part of his work with Allscripts, he has tested and developed new features in the company's home care application, including integrations that allow for a fully electronic medical record. These efforts led to his agency being one of the first in the nation to have a fully electronic medical record. Sorensen is actively involved in the home care and hospice community and has served in a number of roles on the state and national association boards. |
2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
Location
Paris Las Vegas
3655 Las Vegas Boulevard South
Las Vegas, NV 89109
- Room rate: $179/night + $20 daily resort fee
- Hotel cut-off date: Tuesday, April 22, 2025
- Reservation Center: 866-603-4389 and referencing the Home Health Administrators Summit
- Reservations URL: TBD
- Hotel website: https://www.caesars.com/paris-las-vegas
HCPro/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 on the website and in the brochure.
2025 Home Health Administrator's Summit
Pricing
Main Conference: Thursday, May 15 — Friday, May 16, 2025
- Retail price: $1,199.00
- Early Bird price: $1,099.00 — Early Bird ends Wednesday, March 6, 2025
- Main Conference + Preconference: $1,399.00
- Main Conference + Preconference Early Bird: $1,299.00 — Early Bird ends Wednesday, March 6, 2025
Preconference: Monday, May 14, 2024
- Retail price: $499.00
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