Value-Based Purchasing | Where Does Your HHA / Hospice Fit In Delivery System Reform?

[W3640] Value-Based Purchasing | Where Does Your HomeHealth Agency Or Hospice Fit In Delivery System Reform?
A 2022 TAHC&H Member Webinar - Now Available to All!

Presentation Info:

• TAHC&H Virtual Event | 2022 Monthly Member Webinars | Recorded for On-Demand Access
• Presentation Date | February 2, 2022

Program Description: Value-based payments(“VBP”) and alternative payment methodologies (APMs) are becoming more prevalent both in the public programs and private insurance. Additionally, the HHS has recently published new safe harbors that directly affect these payment mechanisms. The session will discuss some of the various VBPs and APMs that may affect home health agencies and hospices, the new safe harbors related to these payment mechanisms, how you can participate, and the pitfalls of which to be aware. In this presentation attorneys Michael Cook and Heidi Kocher discuss these important developments.

HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed:

• §558.259[d][4]agency responsibilities
• §558.260[a][3]basic principles of management in a licensed health-related setting
• §558.260[a][6]risk assessment and management
• §558.260[a][7]financial management

Education-Training Credits:

• TX HCSSA Administrator/Alternate Continuing Education
• 1.0 Clock Hr(s)

TAHC&H Faculty/Presenter(s): Michael Cook and Heidi Kocher | Liles Parker Attorneys & Counselors at Law

About the Presenter(s):
Michael Cook has more than 38 years’ experience representing health clients of all kinds in regulatory, reimbursement, fraud and abuse, compliance, business, strategic planning,and public policy matters, with a strong emphasis on post-acute providers. At the beginning of his career, Michael also was an attorney with the Office of General Counsel at the United States Department of Health and Human Services where he represented the federal regulators of the Medicare and Medicaid programs on matters of the highestlegal and political senstivity. He recently received the honor of Fellow from the American Health Lawyers Association.

In addition to his health care practice, Michael serves as a strategic health care advisor to a start-up company that has developed a health care related product to protect seniors from fractured hips. He was appointed by Governor McAuliffe to serve on the Board of the Department of Medical Assistance Services that advises Virginia’s Medicaid program, has served as a health care advisor to a number of candidates for state and national office, and recently received the Albert Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award fromMarquis Who’s Who. He frequently lectures on topics of interest to health care providers and earlier this year presented on the topics of “Internal Investigations” for health care companies at the 2019 American Health Lawyers Association conference on Medicare and Medicaid Payment Issues and moderated a panel of State Medicaid Directors on the changing face of their Medicaid programs in post-acute care for the AHLA Long-Term Care and the Law conference.

About the Presenter(s):
Heidi Kocher Esq., MBA, CHC, is a partner with the law firm of Liles Parker. She has over 20 years of experience advising and defending health care clients on legal and regulatory matters affecting providers of all sizes. She is an expert in all aspects of compliance and privacy programs, including developing and deploying policies, procedures and training. Her experience includes serving as a Chief Compliance Officer and a Chief Privacy Officer, implementing the various requirements and aspects of Corporate Integrity Agreements, and responding to and defending audits from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers up through the ALJ level. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She is licensed in Texas and Maryland, and admitted to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. She is Certified in Health Care Compliance.

[W3640] Value-Based Purchasing | Where Does Your HomeHealth Agency Or Hospice Fit In Delivery System Reform?