Strategic Home Health Partnerships

Strategic Home Health Partnerships:
A Critical Success Factor in Value-Based Care

Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (1:00 - 2:00 PM) (CDT)

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An Important Workshop for Home Health Providers and Hospitals

A hospital's value-based care success doesn't end at discharge—it depends on what happens next. Home health providers have long understood the critical role they play in helping hospitals achieve better outcomes, lower readmissions, and stronger financial performance. Now it's time to explore why home health is one of a hospital's most valuable value-based care partners—and what every hospital should know.

Description

As CMS continues to expand mandatory value-based payment models, hospitals are being held increasingly accountable for patient outcomes and total episode spending well beyond discharge. Programs such as the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) and the upcoming CJR-X model place greater financial responsibility on hospitals to successfully manage care transitions and patient outcomes for up to 90 days following discharge.

In this environment, selecting the right post-acute partners has become a strategic imperative.

High-performing home health agencies can play a critical role in helping hospitals reduce readmissions, improve patient outcomes, lower total cost of care, and successfully achieve quality and financial goals under bundled payment and value-based care programs. However, not all home health providers deliver the same results.

Join us for this informative webinar to learn how leading hospitals are leveraging home health partnerships to drive performance under TEAM, CJR-X, and other emerging value-based payment models. We will examine the impact of effective post-acute care management on episode costs, quality outcomes, patient satisfaction, and overall program success.

Attendees will learn:

As CMS continues its movement toward value-based care, hospitals that establish strong post-acute partnerships will be better positioned to improve outcomes, control costs, and thrive in an increasingly risk-based environment.

Speakers

Angela Huff, RN, Senior Manager, Forvis Mazars, Springfield, MO

With over 35 years of experience as a registered nurse, Angela has spent nearly 25 years in executive leadership in home health and hospice operations as well as software development in the post-acute space. In addition, she has global experience in the community care space that includes the United Kingdom, Finland, Canada, and Australia.  Angela performs operations improvement assessments and compliance-focused reviews of home health and hospice documentation, including audits and appeals related to the OIG and program integrity contractors as well as compliance risk assessments related to mergers and acquisitions.

She is actively involved in the educational and advocacy activities the Alliance for Care at Home and is a member of the HHFMA’s Work Group Innovation, and Women in Leadership Committees. Angela has been a presenter at former NAHC and NHPCO conferences and the now Alliance conferences, as well as other industry national and state organizations and has been published in industry publications. She serves on industry advisory and state association boards across the industry.  Before entering the post-acute industry, she served in acute care management positions and was a Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse and a Certified Registered Nurse Infusionist.

M. Aaron Little, Managing Director, Forvis Mazars, Springfield, MO

Aaron has more than 20 years of experience with the firm and oversees the operations of Forvis Mazars’ healthcare billing and revenue cycle services, a special team that manages the billing and revenue cycle operations for more than 100 home care, hospice, and senior living organizations throughout the nation. He routinely performs revenue and accounts receivable recovery services, billing operations efficiency and compliance assessments, client training, and other billing services. He frequently consults with providers and legal counsel on billing and operations compliance matters, including assisting providers with compliance audits required by the Office of Inspector General and program integrity contractors. Aaron also performs general financial and operational consulting services for home care and hospice organizations, including operations reviews, benchmarking, and cost report preparation.

Nationally recognized for his expertise in home care and hospice billing and operations, he serves on the Home Care & Hospice Financial Managers Association (HHFMA) Advisory Board and Workgroup. He was the initial chair of the HHFMA’s Young Professionals Committee and is currently chair of its Business Analytics Committee. He has previously served on the Visiting Nurse Associations of America (VNAA) Corporate Advisory Committee, an ad-hoc committee of the VNAA board of directors, and the Research Institute for Home Care’s Quality & Innovation Work Group. Aaron routinely presents educational seminars for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC), HHFMA, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, and numerous other regional and state industry organizations. He is involved in supporting the Council of State Home Care Associations, as well as the advocacy efforts of numerous state home care and hospice associations. Aaron has been nationally recognized as an industry thought leader on Patient-Driven Groupings Model (PDGM). He participated in developing the data analytics and financial and operations content for NAHC’s 2019 PDGM National Summits and its 2020 PDGM Virtual Summits. Aaron has authored FORsights articles and is routinely quoted in national home care periodicals, including those published by Eli Research and DecisionHealth.

Aaron is a member of HHFMA, American Institute of CPAs, and Missouri Society of CPAs. He also is a member of Class 30 of Leadership Springfield and was selected by the Springfield Business Journal as a member of its 2015 class of “Forty Under 40,” which is awarded by an independent panel of judges to up-and-coming community professionals under age 40.

He is a 1997 summa cum laude graduate of College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Missouri, with a B.S. degree in business administration.

Registration Info

In partnership with Forvis Mazars, we are offering this as a FREE webinar to all registrants. Fill out the registration form to reserve your spot today! Registration spots are limited due to Zoom restrictions. 

One to two days prior to the webinar, a Zoom link and any relevant materials will be sent to the email address used at registration.

This webinar will be recorded. Following the webinar, a link will be emailed to all registrants. The recording will be available for 60 days.