ADVOCACY HILL DAY and MEET & GREET NETWORKING RECEPTION

Wednesday, October 23

7:00am-8:45am

Advocacy Hill Day —Breakfast & Briefing

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-E

HOTEL PICKUP:  Located outside the Woodrow Wilson and Maryland Ballrooms. Bus will pick up participants outside the Woodrow Wilson and Maryland Ballrooms AND DEPART PROMPTLY. Bus activity occurs on hotel's bus loop on St. George Street.

BUS DROP OFF: PEACE CIRCLE. Participants will be dropped off at Capitol Hill Peace Circle, or as close as possible.

5:30-6:30pm

Meet & Greet Networking Reception

LOCATION: LOWER ATRIUM (Town Park)

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM, EXHIBITS and NETWORKING RECEPTION

Thursday, October 24

7:00am-8:00am

Registration, Breakfast & Exhibits

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE A-C

8:00-8:15am

Welcome

LOCATION:CHESAPEAKE D-F

• Paul Dongilli Jr. PhD FACHE, President & CEO, Madonna Rehabilitation Hospitals

• Ed Prettyman PsyD, Chief Executive Officer, Texas NeuroRehab Center

8:15-9:15am

Cybersecurity: How to Work Together to Defend the Organization without Impairing Care Delivery

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKER: Eric Liederman MD MPH, CEO, CyberSolutionsMD

SESSION DESCRIPTION:  Healthcare is the number one target for cybercriminals, and healthcare technology is highly complex and interdependent. When healthcare is disrupted, patients can be harmed, or die – the stakes are high.

Security and Privacy professionals are threat and compliance focused, incentivized to drive “their” risks as low as possible, while care delivery leaders are patient and care system focused, incentivized to keep system availability and usability high.

When these leaders do not collaborate, Security and Privacy professionals feel the need to be “perfect”, and often design and implement controls that impair care delivery, and then, in response to the resulting negative feedback, refrain from implementing needed controls for fear of causing patient harm.

Collaborative security and privacy governance achieves several important outcomes: effective controls that don’t impair care; faster adoption with joint sponsorship; increased job security and stress reduction for Security and Privacy professionals.

TOPICS DISCUSSED INCLUDE:  Privacy & Security.

INSIGHT ON HOW TO:

• Review the complex and high-risk healthcare landscape
• Identify the different priorities of healthcare security/privacy and care delivery leaders
• Understand how risk reduction controls, designed in isolation, can increase risks elsewhere in the organization – and that when care delivery risk is increased, patients can be harmed
• Learn how to systematically reduce aggregate organizational risk through collaborative joint decision-making governance
• Appreciate the benefits to all parties of a joint decision-making approach
  

9:15-10:00am

MedPAC Perspective: Long Term Care Hospitals & Post Acute Care       

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKER:  Paul Masi MPP, Executive Director, MedPAC

10:00-10:30am

Exhibits & Break

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE A-C

10:30-11:30am

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

MODERATOR:  Lou Little MBA, NALTH Senior Consultant

PANELISTS:  

• David Lipschutz, Co-Director/Attorney, Center for Medicare Advocacy
• Joe Nahra, Director Government Relations & Regulatory Policy, American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA)
• Kate Beller JD, President, American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association (AMRPA)
• Lane Koenig PhD, President, KNG Health Consulting and Director of Policy and Research, NALTH
• Martin Allen CPA, Senior Vice President of Reimbursement Policy, American Health Care Association & National Center for Assisted Living
  

11:30-1:00pm

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE A-C

1:00-1:45pm

LTCH Accreditation / Certification: Role of the Governing Body

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKER: Richard Curtis MS RN HACP, CEO, Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ)

SESSION DESCRIPTION:  This presentation serves as the foundation to orient members of the governing body to their role in a hospital’s accreditation / certification.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• The importance of accreditation / certification
• Key requirements for governance by CMS and accrediting organizations
• How to assure that the governing body provides appropriate oversight of a hospital
• The governing body’s role during survey activities and when deficiencies are identified.

1:45-2:30pm

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKER:  Sam Fleming, President, Fleming-AOD / LTRAX.com

LTCH TRENDS: 

• Key Performance Indicators
• Payer Mix
• Medicare Finance
• Case Mix

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

MODERATOR: 

• Lane Koenig PhD, President, KNG Health Consulting and Director of Policy and Research, NALTH

PANELISTS:

• Daniel Brywczynski, Chief Operating Officer, ScionHealth
• Ed Prettyman PsyD, CEO, Texas NeuroRehab Center
• Jonathan Gold, Senior Associate Director, Payment Policy, American Hospital Association
  

3:30-4:00pm

Member Input: The Future of NALTH Educational Events

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKER: Sonja LaBarbera MSOL MS CCCSLP, President & Chief Executive Officer, Gaylord Specialty Healthcare

LOCATION: ON YOUR OWN

5:30-6:30pm

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE A-C

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

7:30-8:00am

Breakfast

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

8:00-8:45am

NALTH Advocacy Efforts

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKERs: 

• Ed Prettyman PsyD, Chief Executive Officer, Texas NeuroRehab Center
• Holly Strain MPH, Associate VP, Capitol Decisions

8:45-10:00am

A Changing PAC Landscape and the Outlook for LTCHs

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

10:00-10:30am

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

SPEAKER:  Tesch Leigh West, Morgan Lewis

10:30-11:15am

Tools to Help Survive Medicare Advantage

LOCATION: CHESAPEAKE D-F

• Elizabeth Hamlett, Senior Research Associate, KNG Health Consulting
• Lane Koenig PhD, President, KNG Health Consulting and Director of Policy and Research, NALTH
  

TOPICS:

• NALTH MA Toolkit

• How to respond to MA denials

• Member experiences & strategies

• LTCHs: Fee for services vs. MA

11:15-11:20am

Evaluation Surveys

11:20am

End Program