2025 Advanced IRF Boot Camp Resources
AMRPA 2025 Advanced IRF Boot Camp
Recordings are included with your registration and will be posted within 1 week after the event. You will receive an email from AMRPA when the recordings are available, which will also include instructions to claim continuing education credit.
Click on the links below to access the handouts.
Schedule (Eastern Time)
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
11:05 am – 11:50 am ET | Regulatory Updates Kate Beller, JD, President, ‎AMRPA |
11:50 am – 12:20 pm ET | 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 ET | 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 ET | The Rehab Physician Gap: Staffing, Compliance, and the Cost of Being Unprepared Jeffery S. Johns, M.D., Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Dept of PM&R, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Medical Director, Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital, & Executive Medical Director, Rehabilitation & Pain Medicine Patient Care Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Darryl Kaelin, M.D., University of Louisville Endowed Chair of Stroke and Brain Injury Rehab, Professor and Chief of PM&R, University of Louisville, Medical Director of Frazier Rehab Institute, Past President AAPM&R |
‎2:05 pm – 2:50 pm ET | Inspiring Collaboration in Inpatient Rehabilitation: A Journey of Trust, Teamwork, and ‎Transformation Lisa Schmelz, OTR, Post Acute Services Education Specialist, HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement Tyler Huish, MPT, NCS, Therapy Manager, Utah Valley Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit |
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
‎11:05 am – ‎‎11:50 am ET | EMR Compliance 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 ‎ |
‎11:50 am – 12:35 pm ET ‎ | Improving Outcomes through Accurate & Consistent GG Scoring  Lisa Werner, MBA, MS, SLP, ‎Director of Consulting ‎Services, Fleming AOD |
‎12:50 am – ‎‎1:35 pm ET | 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 Services at Carolinas Rehabilitation-Northeast, EQUADR PSO Coordinator  Alicia L. Ancarrow, MSPT, ‎MSHA, Senior Clinical Director, Post-Acute Services- Acute ‎Inpatient Rehabilitation, HCA |
‎1:35 am – ‎‎2:20 pm ET | Successfully Leading Yourself and Others Through Change |
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