Executive Program
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Our 2019 Program highlights leading-edge change, opportunity, and innovation in home care and hospice - it's our most original one yet. Join us at the rejuvenating Fairmont Scottsdale Princess to refresh your vision for the future.
11:45 am – 4:30 pm
Cattle Drive
Partake in an authentic western cattle drive in the heart of Yavapai Indian Community Land. You’ll work with horseback riders to herd cattle into the corral. Appropriate for all riders.
11:45 am – 5:00 pm
Home Care 100 Executive Golf Tournament
The unrivaled Randy Heckenkemper-designed Champions Course embraces the picturesque Arizona terrain and provides an engaging experience for all skill levels. (Executives Only)
12:00 – 4:15 pm
Old Town Scottsdale Group Pedal & Craft Brewery Tour
See Old Town Scottsdale in a new way as you pedal around downtown on a bicycle built for 14. You’ll visit two local craft breweries for private behind the scenes tours, appetizers and tastings.
12:45 – 4:30 pm
Desert Jeep Tour
Hop into a four-wheel drive jeep to see some of the most scenic, rugged terrain in the western US.
CEO Panel: Preparing for PDGM
Four CEOs will discuss the implications of the biggest change to home health reimbursement since the arrival of the Prospective Payment System in 2000. They’ll forecast how a shift from a 60- to 30-day episode of care will affect everything from revenue streams and strategic positioning to staffing requirements, therapy services and remote patient monitoring.
Mega Managed Care Deals & Their Impact on Home Care
Recent payer-provider deals — Humana’s purchase of Kindred and Curo and Anthem’s purchase of Aspire — have huge implications. Is this the start of a wave of insurer-home health acquisitions? Will we now see more risk-based contracting across payers? Could providers become payers themselves? And will these payer-provider deals ultimately lead to significant savings?
Personal Care as the Lynchpin of Population Health
Personal care executives will show how non-skilled, in-home services are emerging as a vital component to managing patient populations. They’ll analyze the recent CMS decision to fold personal care into the Medicare Advantage benefit and discuss four strategies for making personal care providers attractive to population health management partners, including: identifying health risks; managing medical records; training caregivers; and building a culture of accountable care.
These rapid-format meetings connect providers with innovative solution partners. You will gain some fresh insights, and perhaps find a valuable new business partner.
Tighter Alignment with Health Systems
Stuck in a preferred network that’s not paying dividends? It could be time to rethink your health system relationship. We’ll explore tightly aligned health system alliances — and joint ventures and exclusivity contracts — including discuss the key factors that differentiate good deals from bad, outcomes, volume, competition, exclusivity and leakage.
Foreign Sourcing of Labor: Micro & Macro Solutions
Is it possible to alleviate your staffing shortages by importing foreign labor? This research project will look at companies both in and outside of healthcare who have successfully imported foreign labor. Will these successful methods work for home care organizations in 2019? What are the pros and cons, and ROI?
In addition, we will look at the issue from a macro-level. While the demand for direct-care workers is steadily growing, the supply of foreign-born labor (who constitute ¼ of this workforce) is actually now tightening under Trump Administration immigration directives. What can be done to amplify advocacy on this issue?
CEO Panel: Hospice Outlook 2019
Three top hospice CEOs will address key questions affecting the business of end-of-life care in 2019 and beyond.
- Quality Reporting: What are best practices in the Hospice Quality Reporting Program (HQRP) and which new measures are coming in 2020?
- Hospice Compare: Is it working, and how can it be improved?
- Hospice MA Carve In: How are forward-thinking providers preparing already?
- Palliative Care Expansion: What new models of palliative care show promise?
Innovating Palliative Care
New palliative models are emerging that deliver chronic care management outside the hospice benefit. This panel will demonstrate the value of pre-emptive pain management within a value-based payment environment, including a review of reimbursement methods, readmissions prevention and impact cost of care.
8 Essential M&A Questions for 2019
M&A Activity in home care has been white hot — for both skilled and non-skilled providers. But will it continue? This near-term forecast will address eight key questions for the coming year, including:
- Who will be more active, strategic buyers or private equity?
- Is the appetite for acquisitions versus organic growth changing anyway?
- How likely are SNFs to start buying up home care in 2019?
- Will buyers be more interested in geographic concentration or one-off opportunities?
- How will vertical integration affect activity; is home health buying more personal care or hospice?
- Will strategic buyers prefer small, under-performing providers, or strong performers?
- Will health systems acquire or shed more home health businesses?
- Are more payers emerging as buyers of home health and hospice?
Claim Review Is Back — What You Need to Know About RCD
Home health providers and policy experts will frame out the operational implications of the newly proposed Review Choice Demonstration (RCD) including pre- and post-claim review options, incentives for providers to achieve ‘Gold Standard’ compliance, and thresholds required for a provider to be relieved from routine claim reviews altogether.
Seizing the Adult Day Opportunity
Could the next big thing in ‘home care’ be bricks and mortar? The advent of ridesharing, along with the growing staffing crisis, suggests a future where Adult Day Care could take off as a model of efficiency. The panel will analyze the Adult Day business model and recommend ways for home care providers to get involved.
The Bleeding Edge of Innovation: How VC Views Home Care
Four leading venture capital investors will share their outlook on home-based healthcare services and technology. They’ll describe their investment criteria; their views on government-backed reimbursement; where they see home care vulnerable to disruption; and who they predict will be the next big Ubers of healthcare.
Innovators Spotlight
Trinity at Home: Refining the Virtual Visit
Michigan-based Trinity at Home is scaling a 24/7 virtual nursing care initiative called Home Care Connect, which is preventing avoidable ER visits, decreasing overall 30-day re-admissions, and increasing staffing efficiency and patient satisfaction.
VNA Care: Driving Deep Synergies with ACOs
Boston-based VNA Care is aggressively taking risk and generating high value for one of the largest ACOs in Massachusetts, Atrius Health. VNA Care will describe their specialty programs (including telehealth, pharmacy visits and home assessments) and show how they saved their ACO partner more than $10 million over a 12-month period.
Innovators Spotlight
Sutter Care at Home: Finding a Niche in For-Profit PACE
Sutter at Home has a solution to the capital-intense startup requirements of PACE: a JV with for-profit Welbe Health. Sutter will outline its JV and explain why partnerships with for-profits can help other home health providers get into PACE.
2:15 pm – 5:00 pm
Mountain Biking
Cruise along one of Arizona’s premier mountain bike trails. Ideal for riders of all levels.
2:15 – 5:00 pm
Horseback Riding
This leisurely guided tour takes you into the heart of the Sonoran Desert’s beautiful mountain ranges and desert plateaus. Keep your eyes open for wildlife!
2:15 – 5:30 pm
Well & Being Spa
Enjoy a 50-minute journey massage or deep cleansing facial.
2:30 – 4:30 pm
Culinary Creations 101
Join a Culinary Master for an intimate demonstration of the tricks of the trade! Teams will take what they learned to create – and enjoy – a one-of-a-kind delicious masterpiece of their own.
2:30 – 4:45 pm
Desert Hiking
Discover the beauty of the desert with a seasoned mountaineer and naturalist who will describe the flora and fauna along your path. Designed for all fitness levels.
2:30 – 5:00 pm
Waste Management Phoenix Open at TPC Stadium Course
Walk the course of one of the most legendary, and best-attended, golf tournaments in the world. You may even be lucky enough to see some pros. Please note, this activity is on your own.
Earn ACHE Credits at Home Care 100
All healthcare-management education produced by Home Care 100 is eligible for Qualified Education credits by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). This includes face-to-face programming at the annual Home Care 100 conference as well as “distance” programming (webinars, think tank calls and more). ACHE credits are not issued directly by Home Care 100. Rather, participants are asked to submit educational programming hours directly to ACHE for either advancement toward or re-certification of the status of ACHE Fellow (FACHE).
How To Submit for Credits: Please list Home Care 100 on your My ACHE page under ACHE Qualified Education credit. The conference will then be evaluated and counted on your account.
For more information about ACHE credentialing, click here.
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