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Maryland-National Capital

Homecare Association

Fall Symposium

  • Tuesday, October 08, 2024
  • 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • The Meeting House- 5885 Robert Oliver Place, Columbia MD 21045

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Elevate Your Home Health Agency with Cutting-Edge Strategies

MNCHA invites you to join SimiTree’s home health experts, J’non Griffin and Nick Seabrook, for a content-rich day of curated education and professional insights. J’non and Nick will cover a variety of current “hot” topics in an interactive forum that will inform and empower you! Learn SimiTree’s best practices for data utilization to enhance your agency’s clinical outcomes and market share, prepare for OASIS E-1, explore the opportunities for AI in the home health sector, and network with your industry colleagues. Please see the program agenda for entire educational content.

Agenda


9:00 AM    Welcome


9:10 AM    Inside the Numbers - Data

  • PDGM
  • Market Share

9:55 AM    Inside the Numbers - Operations Impact

  • Clinical Management
  • Disease-specific & date-drive

10:40 AM    Networking Break

10:55 AM    Value Based Purchasing

  • Update
  • Strategies
  1. Reduction of Readmissions
  2. Improving Patient Satisfaction

11:40 AM    Coding / OASIS 

  • New Items for OASIS E-1
  • GG Items & Discharge Function Score

12:25 PM    Lunch & Networking

1:00 PM    Medicare Advantage

1:30 PM    CY 2025 Proposed Rule

2:00 PM    Compliance

  • ADRs
  • Audit-proof Documentation

2:30 PM    The Future of AI in Home Health

3:00 PM    Networking & Symposium Adjourns


Featured Speakers

J'non Griffin, RN MHA HCS-D, HCS-H, HCS-C, HCS-O, COS-C

Sr. Vice President, Coding and Compliance

J'non brings more than three decades of clinical and leadership experience in coding and compliance to her role at SimiTree as Vice President, Coding and Compliance.

She launched her own outsourced coding and consulting company, Home Health Solutions LLC, in 2012. It was named by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the nation in 2017, 2018, 2019 before merging with Simione Healthcare Consultants in 2020. When Simione merged with BlackTree in 2021, J'non took over the helm of SimiTree's coding division. In 2023, she was named Vice President of Compliance as well as Coding.

J'non is an accredited ACHC and CHAP consultant, and a popular educator at nationwide conferences. In 2021, she was named Associate of the Year by the Texas Association of Home Care & Hospice, and is currently serving a two-year term as Secretary for the Florida Home Care Association.

A registered nurse who has held a master’s degree in health administration since 2005, Griffin is certified as both a Homecare Coding Specialist-Diagnosis (HCS-D) and as a Homecare Coding Specialist-Hospice (HCS-H).

She also holds OASIS competency (COS-C) certification and teaches OASIS courses nationwide. As an AHIMA approved ICD-10-CM trainer/ambassador, she is a foremost expert in the international disease classification set and diagnostic coding, and has expertise in Medicare methodology.

With more than 30 years of experience since her first job as a field nurse, Griffin has served in administrative roles ranging from agency director to regional director as well as roles in quality and compliance for
home health and hospice agencies.

Nick Seabrook

Executive Vice President, SimiTree

Nick Seabrook is an EVP at SimiTree, where he leads the company’s Client Development. SimiTree offers outsourcing, consulting, data analytics and talent solutions to home health and hospice agencies throughout the country. Nick has nearly 25 years of post acute consulting experience – starting in 2000 with McBee where he worked for 10 years before co-founding BlackTree which merged with Simione to form SimiTree in 2021. Nick is a leading authority and frequent speaker on solutions for operational, financial, and regulatory challenges. Nick graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting.


Registrant Cost

Early Bird Rate [August 21st - September 13th]

Member - $169

Non-member - $259

Standard Rate [September 14th - October 7th]

Member - $209

Non-member - $299

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Early Bird Group Rate [August 21st - September 13th]

Member - $169 additional guests $134

Non-member - $259 additional guests $224

Standard Group Rate [September 14th - October 7th]

Member - $209 additional guests $174

Non-member - $299 additional guests $264

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