AMRPA 2025 Advanced IRF Boot Camp – Tentative Schedule

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

11:00 am – 11:05 am

Welcome & Introductions

11:05 am – 11:50 am

Regulatory Updates

Kate Beller, JD, President, ‎AMRPA

11:50 am – 12:20 pm

Prior Authorization and Medicare Advantage – Strategies to Succeed

Renee Alsop, PT, DPT, MRMC, Manager, Rehabilitation Authorizations and Appeals, Atrium Health – Carolinas Rehabilitation

12:20 pm – 1:05 pm

Navigating Nursing Shortages with Strategy and Structure

Lela Hickonbottom, DNP, MSN, MBA, CRRN, Chief Nursing Officer, DMC Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan

‎1:20 pm – 2:05 pm‎

The Rehab Physician Gap: Staffing, Compliance, and the Cost of Being Unprepared

Chloe Slocum, MD, MPH, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital

‎2:05 pm – 2:50 pm

Collaboration in Rehabilitation

TBD

2:50 pm – 2:55 pm

Closing Remarks

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

11:00 am – 11:05 am

Opening Remarks

‎11:05 am – ‎‎11:50 am

Clinical Document Integrity (CDI) in the Age of AI

Jane Snecinski, MBA, ‎FACHE, MRMC, President ‎and Principal Consultant, ‎‎Post Acute Advisors

Christopher Thorson, PT, ‎MRMC, CCCE, Rehabilitation ‎Manager, Essentia Health ‎Miller-Dwan Rehabilitation ‎Services ‎

Michael Sperl, DO, Essentia ‎Health Miller-Dwan ‎Rehabilitation Services

‎11:50 am – 12:35 pm ‎

Improving Outcomes through Accurate & Consistent GG Scoring

Lisa Werner, MBA, MS, SLP, ‎Director of Consulting ‎Services, Fleming AOD

‎12:50 am – ‎‎1:35 pm

IRF QRP, Reporting Requirements, and Publicly Reported Outcomes

Troy Hillman, Director of ‎Quality and Health Policy, ‎AMRPA ‎

Janet Pue, DPT, NCS, FACHE, Director of Rehabilitation. EQUADRSM PSO Coordinator, Carolinas Rehabilitation-‎Northeast

Alicia L. Ancarrow, MSPT, ‎MSHA, Senior Clinical Director, Post-Acute Services- Acute ‎Inpatient Rehabilitation, HCA

‎1:35 am – ‎‎2:20 pm

Change Management in Changing Times

Jan McCafferty, RN, MBA, ‎PCC, Managing Director, ‎Tandem Solutions

2:20 pm – 2:25 pm

Closing Remarks