5:00 PM 6:30 PM
9:00 AM 10:00 AM
10:00 AM 10:15 AM
Break
Concurrent Breakout Sessions
10:15 AM 11:30 AM
The Medicare
Hospice Program:
New Billing
Requirements and
Hot Topics from
Your Medicare
Administrative
Contractor (MAC)
Emily Fox-Squairs
Medicare Provider
Outreach and
Education
Consultant
National
Government Services
Michael R. Bertoncini,
JD
Shareholder
Jackson Lewis P.C.
11:30 AM 1:00 PM
Networking Lunch
1:15 PM 2:30 PM
2:30 PM 3:55 PM
Shelly
Bernardini,
RN, CPHM
Stephen Spano, BA,
Home Health
MBA, JD, CELA
Derek Jones
Clinical
Partner
Senior Director of
Consultant
Law Offices of
Marketing
and Provider
Spano & Dawicki
ClearCare Online
Outreach and
Education
National
Government
Services
Exhibit Hall Open Afternoon Refreshment Break
Telephone Triage:
Is a Visit Needed?
Symptom
Management Until
Help Arrives
Janet Travers, BSN,
RN, CHPN
Hospice and
Palliative Care Case
Manager Hospice of
the South Shore
4:00 PM 5:00 PM
Closing Keynote:
Building Resiliency in New England Health Care Improving Home Care & Hospice for the Long Haul
Robert J. Simione, Simione Healthcare Consultants, LLC
5:00 PM 6:30 PM
8:30 AM 9:30 AM
9:45 AM 10:30 AM
Making the
Connection Between
Employee
Engagement and
Patient Satisfaction
Hospice Quality
Reporting and
Customer Service: Yes
There IS a
Connection!
Deborah Costello,
MSM, BSN, RN
Executive Director
Lahey Health at Home
Depression, Dementia
and Diabetes: A Looming
Epidemic Are You
Ready?
Dr. Verna Benner Carson,
PMH/CNS-BC
President
and
Katherine J. Vanderhorst,
RN, BSN
Vice President
C & V Senior Care
Specialists, Inc.