Tag: Katie Wehri

NAHC Webinar: Final Hospice Survey Reforms: Implications for Providers

Friday, November 5, 2021 Noon to 1:00PM Eastern REGISTER NOW Free to NAHC members! In late 2020 Congress enacted significant changes to the hospice survey process, including creation of a “Special Focus” program for poor performing hospice providers, expansion of the remedies that CMS can use to penalize seriously deficient hospices, and requirements that CMS…

New NAHC Webinar: What the 2022 Hospice Final Rule Means for Payment & Quality

Wednesday, August 11, 2011 12:30PM to 1:30PM Eastern Register The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) will present an important new webinar, FY2022 Hospice Final Rule: What’s in Store for Hospice Payment and Quality Measures. The FY2022 final Hospice payment and quality reporting program update final rule was released on July 29.  While…

NAHC’s Theresa Forster & Katie Wehri Honored for Advocacy by NY Assn

The Home Care Association of New York (HCA) honored NAHC Vice President for Hospice Policy Theresa Forster and Director of Home Care & Hospice Regulatory Affairs Katie Wehri for their advocacy on behalf of hospice services, at the association’s virtual annual conference on May 5. The HCA Advocacy Award recognizes a provider agency or person who…

NGS Collaborative Medicare Summit goes Virtual, Expands to Include Hospice, Home Health, and Parts A, B Education

Medicare Part A, Part B and Home Health & Hospice providers and vendors from all Jurisdictions are invited to join the National Government Services Collaborative 2020 Virtual Part A/B, Home Health & Hospice Medicare Summit, scheduled for September 22 – 24. Registration is now open for this FREE live educational webinar event that will host 30 subject matter…

New NAHC Webinar: FY2021 Proposed Hospice Payment Rule & Update on Hospice COVID-19 Flexibilities

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) will present an important new webinar to inform viewers about the recently-released FY2021 Proposed Hospice Payment Rule and provide an update on new hospice flexibilities related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This webinar, the FY2021 Proposed Hospice Payment Rule and Update on Hospice COVID-19 Flexibilities, will air live…

How to Understand the Hospice PEPPER Report and Use it to Help Your Agency

The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) will present an important new webinar entitled The Hospice PEPPER Report on Thursday, April 25, 2019 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT. This webinar is free to NAHC members. If you’re a hospice provider, you know the importance of PEPPER (Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns…

CMS Releases List of Potential Future Quality Measures

Today Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the 2018 list of Measures Under Consideration for future use in the home health quality reporting program (HH QRP) and the hospice quality reporting program (HQRP).  The list is released annually, and there is an opportunity for stakeholder comment.  In fact, comments are due next week…

The Best Gets Better — Home Care and Hospice Expert Joins NAHC

Members gain additional resource for regulatory, operational guidance at a moment’s notice The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) is delighted to announce it has hired industry expert Katie Wehri, a nationally-recognized authority on hospice, home health, private duty, and palliative care. “As part of the NAHC 2.0 strategic planning, members expressed their…