Education

Leadership Forum Agenda

As of March 10, 2019
Session titles subject to change.

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Monday, March 11, 2019

7:15 AM
Salon 3 Foyer

Registration Opens 

7:15 AM - 8:00 AM
Plaza C & D Ballroom

Networking Breakfast

8:00 AM - 8:15 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Leadership Forum - Welcome and State of the Field
Richard Kathrins, PhD, Chair, AMRPA Board of Directors / President and CEO, Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation

8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Policy Headlines
Carolyn Zollar, JD, Senior Policy Counsel, AMRPA

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

The New 116th Congress and Preparing the Message for Your Elected Officials
Martie Kendrick, JD, Partner, Akin Gump
Kendall Hussey, Policy Advisor, Akin Gump

9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

A View from CMS: Regulatory Issues and Perspectives
Laurence Wilson, Director, Chronic Care Policy Group, Acting Deputy Director, Center for Medicare, CMS
Presentation of the 2019 Chairman's Award to Laurence Dylan Wilson, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Updates on the IRF Quality Reporting Program
Katie Brooks, RN, Nurse Consultant, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS
Charles Padgett, RN, Nurse Consultant, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality, CMS

11:30 - 11:45 AM
Ballroom Salon 3
Presentation of 2019 Chairman's Award to The Honorable Jason Smith
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Ballroom Salon 3

CMS Update on Recovery Audit Contractors
Brian Elza, Director, Division of Recovery Audit Operations, Center for Program Integrity, CMS

12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Ballroom Salon 3

Data Outcomes and Trends from the Field
Sam Fleming, Director, Fleming-AOD / eRehabData®

12:45 PM–1:15 PM
Plaza C & D Ballroom

Networking Lunch

1:15 PM – 5:00 PM

Congressional Fly-In
Leave for Offsite Hill Visits

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Fyve Restaraunt Lounge

AMRPA Board of Directors Dinner - Closed

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

7:45 AM
Salon 3 Foyer

Registration Opens

7:45 AM - 8:15 AM
Plaza C & D Ballroom

Networking Breakfast

8:15 AM – 8:30 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Leadership Forum - Welcome
Richard Kathrins, PhD, Chair, AMRPA Board of Directors / President and CEO, Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation.

8:30 AM - 9:10 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Innovation in Post-Acute Care
Adam Boehler, Senior Advisor to the Secretary, CMS Deputy Administrator and Director of the Innovation Center

9:10 AM - 10:10 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Foundational Considerations for a Unified Post-Acute Care Prospective Payment System (PAC PPS)
Suzanne Kauserud, FACHE, PT, Member, AMRPA Board of Directors; Chair, AMRPA Quality Committee; AMRPA Representative, CMS PAC PPS Technical Expert Panel; Vice President, Carolinas Rehabilitation

10:10 - 11:00 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Early Findings from the RAND IMPACT National Beta Test of Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements (SPADEs)
Emily Chen, PhD, Co-Director of the IMPACT Act Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements Project, RAND Corporation

11:00 - 11:45 AM
Ballroom Salon 3

Perspectives from the Administration
Jane Lucas, Special Assistant to the President, Office of Legislative Affairs at the White House

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Plaza C & D Ballroom

Attendee Break and Buffet Lunch

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Ballroom Salon 3

Lunch Panel: Provider Perspectives on the Unified Post-Acute Care Prospective Payment System

  • Moderated by Suzanne Kauserud, FACHE, PT, Member, AMRPA Board of Directors; Chair, AMRPA Quality Committee; AMRPA Representative, CMS PAC PPS Technical Expert Panel; Vice President, Carolinas Rehabilitation
  • William A. Dombi, President, National Association for Home Care and Hospice (NAHC)
  • Lane Koenig, PhD, President, KNG Consulting, LLC; Director of Policy and Research, National Associations for Long-Term Care Hospitals (​NALTH)
  • Mike Cheek, Senior Vice President, Reimbursement Policy & Legal Affairs, American Health Care Association (AHCA)/National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL)

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Ballroom Salon 3

Closing Remarks
Richard Kathrins, PhD, Chair, AMRPA Board of Directors, President & CEO, Bacharach Institute for Rehabilitation