Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice

Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice OCHCH is The VOICE of home care and hospice.

The Ohio Council for Home Care & Hospice (OCHCH) is the longest serving statewide trade association, representing the interests of home health care and hospice agencies in Ohio.

Join us for the first of three detailed conversations on the intricacies of Managed Care. This week's webinar will focus...
04/06/2026

Join us for the first of three detailed conversations on the intricacies of Managed Care. This week's webinar will focus on Authorizations. Presented by the one and only Katie Eisel with OCHN!

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Wed. 4/8 MC101: Authorizations, register at https://council.ochch.org/events/Details/managed-care-101-authorizations-presented-by-ochn-1640262

Wed. 5/6 MC102: Owning the Plan of Care, register at https://council.ochch.org/events/Details/managed-care-102-owning-the-plan-of-care-presented-by-ochn-1640263

Wed. 6/10 MC103: Denials & ADRs, register at https://council.ochch.org/events/Details/managed-care-103-denials-adrs-presented-by-ochn-1640266?sourceTypeId=Website

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Are you up on all the ins and outs of agency acquisitions? NO? Then you need to attend this educational session from Jea...
03/17/2026

Are you up on all the ins and outs of agency acquisitions? NO? Then you need to attend this educational session from Jeana Singleton & Amanda Kilway from Brennan Manna Diamond during The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference on March 25 & 26. They will unpack and explain the "Life Cycle of a Deal: From NDA to Closing."

This session is a practical, end-to-end exploration of how home care and hospice sales and acquisitions are structured, negotiated, documented, and closed. Taught by experienced transactional attorneys – Jeana Singleton and Amanda Kilway, this session walks participants through the lifecycle of a deal, beginning with the initial nondisclosure agreement and concluding at closing and post-closing considerations. Using real world examples, the session breaks down each key stage of a transaction, including preliminary agreements, term sheets and letters of intent, due diligence, definitive agreements, negotiation strategies, risk allocation, and closing mechanics. Participants will gain insight into how deals evolve over time, how legal and business objectives intersect, and how common issues are identified and resolved in practice.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

When it comes to audits, you need to be prepared, and this educational session will definitely bolster your toolkit. Joi...
03/17/2026

When it comes to audits, you need to be prepared, and this educational session will definitely bolster your toolkit. Join us at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference on March 25 & 26 to learn from Kristie Meers with Careficient, presenting "Increased Hospice Scrutiny: Navigating Hospice Federal Audits."

Hospice audits are growing in frequency and complexity. This session provides an overview of federal audit types, what each involves, and the most common denial reasons. Learn how to identify risk areas, strengthen documentation, and respond effectively to record requests. We’ll explore clinical and technical denials, key compliance practices, and strategies for success in ALJ hearings. Attendees will gain actionable tools to protect their organization, improve audit outcomes, and ensure compliance while maintaining high-quality care. At the end of the presentation, the attendee will understand Hospice Audit Priorities with the ability to identify key areas of focus for auditors, including clinical and technical denial trends, attendee will verbalize Improved Documentation Practices by learning strategies to strengthen medical necessity documentation and reduce claim denials and will describe how to Effectively Respond to Audit Requests by gaining insight on timely and accurate record submissions to auditors.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

Join us to talk about access and funding at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Megan Olshavsky wi...
03/16/2026

Join us to talk about access and funding at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Megan Olshavsky with Remo Health will present "GUIDE and Other Innovative Funding Models Seeking to Increase Home Care and Hospice Accessibility."

This session will explore opportunities between home care and hospice organizations and healthcare providers to increase accessibility of these services. New funding models from CMS enable health systems, even those not Medicare licensed, to pay for historically overlooked and underfunded activities. Remo Health is a virtual dementia specialty provider participating in Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE). With GUIDE, we offer home care services at no cost to our Medicare beneficiaries. The model is not perfect: margin is low; payment lags, and locating services in rural areas is challenging. Yet, CMS is incorporating feedback. Importantly, the model provides much-needed respite for the family caregivers of our dementia patients, ultimately reducing costly hospital stays.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

Hospice professionals - this is the education you've been looking for! Palmetto GBA will be presenting at The OCHCH Spri...
03/16/2026

Hospice professionals - this is the education you've been looking for! Palmetto GBA will be presenting at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Join us for for two days of exceptional learning, featuring Charles Canaan and Marlene Frierson who will present the 2026 Hospice Workshop entitled “Navigating the Essentials of Medicare.”

This workshop is designed to equip hospice providers with the tools they need to be successful in Medicare billing, coverage and documentation requirements.

Read a full summary of the presentation and register here → https://ochch.org/SFC

We know you want best billing practices, lots of them even, and it so happens we have some! Join us at The OCHCH Spring ...
03/13/2026

We know you want best billing practices, lots of them even, and it so happens we have some! Join us at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference on March 25 & 26 for "Best Billing Practices in a Changing Medicaid Environment" presented by Derek Vester from GEOH.

This workshop will focus on effective strategies you can put into practice at your agency, covering pre-billing practices, technical billing tips, and post-billing processes to avoid denied claims. Participants learn the importance of best pre-billing practices (authorizations, Sandata, visits) and technical billing practices (where to submit claims, procedure codes and modifiers).

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

Calling all Ohio home care and hospice professionals! The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference is March 25 & 26. Join us fo...
03/12/2026

Calling all Ohio home care and hospice professionals! The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference is March 25 & 26. Join us for for two days of exceptional learning, featuring Jeana Singleton & Katherine Crawford from Brennan Manna Diamond, presenting "AI Utilization and Risk Mitigation."

This session examines the rapidly expanding use of artificial intelligence across the home care and hospice care industry and the legal, regulatory, and operational risks that accompany it. Taught by experienced attorneys – Jeana Singleton and Kate Crawford, this session provides a practical overview of how AI technologies are being deployed in clinical care, administration, research, and revenue cycle management. The course explores common AI use cases in healthcare, including diagnostic tools, clinical decision support, predictive analytics, and patient engagement technologies, while highlighting key legal considerations such as data privacy and security, regulatory compliance, bias and transparency, intellectual property, liability exposure, and vendor contracting. Participants will also examine emerging federal and state regulatory frameworks, enforcement trends, and best practices for governance and oversight.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

Home health professionals - this is the education you've been looking for! Palmetto GBA will be presenting at The OCHCH ...
03/12/2026

Home health professionals - this is the education you've been looking for! Palmetto GBA will be presenting at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Join us for for two days of exceptional learning, featuring Michael Bibbins, II and Elizabeth Brogdon who will present the 2026 Home Health Workshop entitled “Navigating the Essentials of Medicare.”

This workshop is designed to equip home health providers with the tools they need to be successful with Medicare billing, coverage and documentation requirements.

Read a full summary of the presentation and register here → https://ochch.org/SFC

We're talking better patient outcomes and business efficiencies at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 &...
03/11/2026

We're talking better patient outcomes and business efficiencies at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Join us for for two days of exceptional learning, featuring "How to Improve Patient Outcomes Using Molecular Testing" presented by Thomas Payne and Jerome Nypaver from Patients Choice Laboratories.

Using molecular testing in the home health setting revolutionizes how clinicians diagnose and manage infections. With rapid and precise results within 24 hours, providers can initiate appropriate treatment interventions quicker and more accurately. This in turn helps avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and helps stem the rise of antibiotic resistance with the detection of antimicrobial resistant genes. We will also briefly discuss Pharmacogenetics (PGx) testing and how studies have shown it can increase treatment success, lower healthcare costs and hospitalization, and reduce trial-and-error medications. Join us as we discuss how these outcomes might be possible for your health system and patients.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

It's almost here! The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference is March 25 & 26. Join us for for two days of exceptional home h...
03/11/2026

It's almost here! The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference is March 25 & 26. Join us for for two days of exceptional home health & hospice learning, featuring "Hospice Levels of Care: Navigating Scrutiny, Compliance Risk, and Financial Vulnerability" presented by Katherine Morrison with WellSky.

This session explores the four hospice levels of care and examines how increasing regulatory scrutiny is reshaping the financial landscape for hospice providers. As auditors and payers intensify their focus on clinical documentation, eligibility, and appropriate use of higher-acuity levels of care, organizations face growing exposure to audits, denials, and costly recoupments. Even minor documentation gaps or misuse of higher levels of care can trigger significant financial consequences, including repayment demands, sanctions, and long-term revenue cycle disruption.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

Don't miss The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Accelerate and grow your agency with insights from ...
03/10/2026

Don't miss The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference this March 25 & 26. Accelerate and grow your agency with insights from Cindy Campbell with WellSky, presenting "The Innovative Leader – Differentiating Practice and Outcomes."

Join us to discuss how integrating machine learned data into long-standing theory can yield advocacy across all stakeholders, supporting top outcomes, growth, mission, and culture. Demography fuels the growth of healthcare at home, and its constricting workforce. Added regulatory, payor and public scrutiny consume the time, focus and energy of leadership teams, all while advances in machine learning and its application to healthcare at home are shifting how leaders best manage day to day clinical operations. Across the continuum of care at home, managing through change is made more effective by resting on foundational functional leadership concepts. Innovative clinical models can yield leadership time and sharpened focus, perfect for leaning into functional leadership approach.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

Have you heard about PPEO for Ohio hospice agencies? Join us at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference on March 25 & 26 t...
03/10/2026

Have you heard about PPEO for Ohio hospice agencies? Join us at The OCHCH Spring Financial Conference on March 25 & 26 to learn from our amazing panel of experts. "The Impact of CMS Including Ohio in the Provisional Period of Enhanced Oversight (PPEO)" will be presented by Christina Andrews (Myers), Jennifer Durbin, Christie Kello, Kristie Meers, and Katherine Morrison, MSN, RN, CHPN, CCS-HH!

Hospice leaders and experts will discuss the Provisional Period of Enhanced Oversight (PPEO)—what it is, why it matters, and how enhanced CMS scrutiny impacts new and transitioning hospice providers in Ohio. The panel will also explore broader oversight trends and practical strategies to help agencies prepare and respond.

Conference Keynotes by Palmetto GBA! Details & registration → https://ochch.org/SFC

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