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The RISE Home Care Summit
June 30 - July 1, 2025
Scottsdale, AZ

Agenda

 

 

 

Monday - June 30, 2025

10:00 AM 11:00 AM

9:00 AM 10:00 AM

8:00 AM 9:00 AM

7:00 AM 8:00 AM

Registration Desk Opens and Networking Breakfast

10:00 AM 8:00 PM

9:00 AM 7:00 PM

8:00 AM 6:00 PM

7:00 AM 5:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

11:00 AM 11:10 AM

10:00 AM 10:10 AM

9:00 AM 9:10 AM

8:00 AM 8:10 AM

Welcome Remarks

11:10 AM 12:00 PM

10:10 AM 11:00 AM

9:10 AM 10:00 AM

8:10 AM 9:00 AM

Keynote: Spotlight on Hospital at Home

Details coming soon. 

Pippa Shulman, DO, MPH
President, American Academy of Home Care Medicine
CMO, Medically Home

12:00 PM 12:50 PM

11:00 AM 11:50 AM

10:00 AM 10:50 AM

9:00 AM 9:50 AM

Transitions of Care: There’s No Place Like Home

  • Identify the latest approaches to safe and effective transitions of care to the home that can help prevent admissions and readmissions as well as reduce costs
  • Consider innovative new opportunities to maximize resources and expand reach by conducting care in the home
  • Ensure the right team is in the right place at the right time to support patient transitions to home care

Tina Dueringer, CEO, Principal Advisor
Dueringer Advisors, Inc

Beau Munoz, MD
Independent Healthcare Technologist

 

12:50 PM 1:20 PM

11:50 AM 12:20 PM

10:50 AM 11:20 AM

9:50 AM 10:20 AM

Networking Break

1:20 PM 2:10 PM

12:20 PM 1:10 PM

11:20 AM 12:10 PM

10:20 AM 11:10 AM

Industry Leader Panel: The Present and Future of Value-Based Home Care

  • Discuss how home care can encourage patient satisfaction, improve quality measures, help engage challenging populations, and close care gaps

  • Explore the growing need for staff and technology to support and enable the rapid growth in home care

  • Assess the increase in investment from private equity firms, the role of community-based organizations, and the positive impacts they can have on care provided in the home

Panelists: 

Eli Goldberg, PhD, MSc, VP of Data and Innovation 
Belle Cares 

Shannon Decker, PhD, MBA, MBA, MEd, MEd, Founder & CEO 
VBC One  

2:10 PM 3:15 PM

1:10 PM 2:15 PM

12:10 PM 1:15 PM

11:10 AM 12:15 PM

Networking Lunch

3:15 PM 4:05 PM

2:15 PM 3:05 PM

1:15 PM 2:05 PM

12:15 PM 1:05 PM

Primary Care at Home: Improving Outcomes, Delivering Value, and Redefining Care

  • Explore how changes in payment models, demographics, and technology are driving the expansion and interest in home-based medical care
  • Discuss how primary care at home aligns with value-based care and quality improvement initiatives
  • Consider the challenges to/of home care and how we begin to mitigate them

Paul Chiang, MD, Senior Medical & Practice Advisor 
HCCI 

4:05 PM 5:00 PM

3:05 PM 4:00 PM

2:05 PM 3:00 PM

1:05 PM 2:00 PM

Advancement of Services and Technology to Support Home Care

  • Explore the latest services and technological advancements being developed to address the needs of family caregivers and enhance the quality of home health care  
  • Discuss the impact of AI and telehealth on the ability to improve members health care outcomes  
  • Assess remote patient monitoring options that can help collect valuable data to identify potential health care issues  
  • Analyze the current investor and funding landscape for home health care solutions, highlighting opportunities for growth and innovation in supporting caregivers and home health initiatives  

  

Moderator: 
Ana Handshuh, CHC, Principal  
CAT5 Strategies  

Panelists: 
Charlotte S. Yeh, MD, former CMS Regional Administrator 
Former Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services Inc 

Founder, Yeh Innovation 
Bryant Saxon, CIO 
Pennant 

Lauren Dunning, Director 
Center for the Future of Aging, Milken Institute  

Yadira Montoya, Programs Director 
National Alliance for Caregiving 

Julie Kennedy, Founder   
Rubywell  

5:00 PM 5:20 PM

4:00 PM 4:20 PM

3:00 PM 3:20 PM

2:00 PM 2:20 PM

Networking Break

5:20 PM 6:05 PM

4:20 PM 5:05 PM

3:20 PM 4:05 PM

2:20 PM 3:05 PM

Mind the Gaps: Achieving Quality Improvement through Home Care

  • Review innovative approaches to closing care gaps by meeting members where they are  
  • Discuss tactics to improve transitions of care and CAHPS survey results by building relationships with the member in the home 
  • Explore how to positively affect Stars and HEDIS scores through in-home care and testing 

6:05 PM 6:20 PM

5:05 PM 5:20 PM

4:05 PM 4:20 PM

3:05 PM 3:20 PM

Tools & Technology Spotlights

Leading service providers will showcase their offerings in a quick-pitch setting. Evaluate the latest and greatest tech tools to bring back to your organization.

6:20 PM 7:00 PM

5:20 PM 6:00 PM

4:20 PM 5:00 PM

3:20 PM 4:00 PM

Roundtable Discussions

Participate in a facilitated roundtable discussion and deep dive with peers on timely topics in the industry. 

7:00 PM 8:00 PM

6:00 PM 7:00 PM

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

4:00 PM 5:00 PM

Networking Cocktail Reception

Join us for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and face-to-face networking with peers.

Tuesday - July 1, 2025

10:00 AM 11:00 AM

9:00 AM 10:00 AM

8:00 AM 9:00 AM

7:00 AM 8:00 AM

Registration Desk Opens and Networking Breakfast

10:00 AM 3:15 PM

9:00 AM 2:15 PM

8:00 AM 1:15 PM

7:00 AM 12:15 PM

Exhibit Hall Open

11:00 AM 11:10 AM

10:00 AM 10:10 AM

9:00 AM 9:10 AM

8:00 AM 8:10 AM

Welcome Remarks

11:10 AM 12:00 PM

10:10 AM 11:00 AM

9:10 AM 10:00 AM

8:10 AM 9:00 AM

Provider Panel: Physicians Weigh in on Home-Based Medicine

  • Hear from physicians on the pros and cons of house calls and home care, from the benefits of remote patient monitoring for chronic conditions and reducing isolation to challenges with staffing and continuity of care 
  • Identify how to increase buy in for home care to better reach patients who are rural, homebound, or have cultural preferences or constraints that prevent them from seeking care 
  • Discuss how innovations in home care could be used in the future to improve quality outcomes and satisfaction, close care gaps, and maximize resources. 

 

Moderator: 

Eli Goldberg, PhD, MSc, VP of Data and Innovation
Belle Cares

 

Panelists: 

Paul Chiang, MD, Senior Medical & Practice Advisor 
HCCI 

Eva Balint, MD, MS, Chief Medical Officer 
EB Consulting 

Jatin Dave, MD, MBBS, MPH, FACP 
CMO, Gov Products, UPMC Health Plan 
Associate Professor of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School 

Darren Wethers, MD, CPE, FACP, CEO 
Wethers Consulting, LLC 

12:00 PM 12:50 PM

11:00 AM 11:50 AM

10:00 AM 10:50 AM

9:00 AM 9:50 AM

Vendor Contracting and Oversite for Home Care

  • Discuss tactics to assess and select vendors for a wide variety of home care services to make real, meaningful improvements in member care  
  • Explore where—and how--to address quality, risk, and care coordination considerations during contracting, including setting KPIs and benchmarks 
  • Assess opportunities to overcome barriers utilizing EMRs when conducting care in the home  
  • Ensure a watertight oversite program to avoid costly errors and compliance risks, while improving interoperability and data sharing 

 

Amy Sharrett, Director, Clinical Services Operations & Performance Monitoring 
Community Health Plan of Washington 

12:50 PM 1:20 PM

11:50 AM 12:20 PM

10:50 AM 11:20 AM

9:50 AM 10:20 AM

Networking Break

1:20 PM 2:15 PM

12:20 PM 1:15 PM

11:20 AM 12:15 PM

10:20 AM 11:15 AM

Home Health, Medicare Advantage, and the False Claims Act: Highlighting Risks and Compliance Strategies

  • Discuss HHS-OIG’s October 2024 Report on Health Risk Assessments: “Medicare Advantage: Questionable Use of Health Risk Assessments Continues to Drive Up Payments to Plans by Billions.”

  • Explain Cigna’s $37 million settlement resolving a whistleblower’s allegations that Cigna submitted risk adjusting diagnoses captured for the first time during in-home assessments by providers without the equipment needed to diagnose these conditions

  • Review the OIG’s Special Fraud Alert regarding marketing arrangements and payments from provider groups, including home health focused provider groups, to insurance brokers, as well as Oak Street Health’s $60 million settlement

  • Explore predictions for where whistleblowers, the Justice Department, and OIG will next focus their attention

Hallie Noecker, Partner
Whistleblower Partners LLP

Max Voldman, Partner
Whistleblower Partners LLP

2:15 PM 3:15 PM

1:15 PM 2:15 PM

12:15 PM 1:15 PM

11:15 AM 12:15 PM

Networking Lunch

3:15 PM 4:05 PM

2:15 PM 3:05 PM

1:15 PM 2:05 PM

12:15 PM 1:05 PM

Caring for the Caregiver: Support, Guidance, and Health Literacy

  • Implement programs to train caregivers on health literacy and explore external partnerships and community-based organizations that can support them  
  • Learn to optimize education for caregivers on different tools and mobile applications that can help improve health care outcomes for the member   
  • Assess strategies to streamline communication between the care team and the caregiver 

4:05 PM 4:55 PM

3:05 PM 3:55 PM

2:05 PM 2:55 PM

1:05 PM 1:55 PM

Panel: Tips, Tricks, and Traps for Maximizing Health Risk Assessments

  • Explore how to maximize HRAs to to capture crucial risk and quality data, as well as identify potential safety or medication adherence issues while in the home 
  • Discuss potential compensation changes from CMS affecting HRA reimbursement for agents and brokers 

4:55 PM 5:00 PM

3:55 PM 4:00 PM

2:55 PM 3:00 PM

1:55 PM 2:00 PM

Closing Remarks