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SUMMARY:Synergy Workshop Series 2026 – Las Vegas NV
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Join agency owners, administrators, clinicians, billing professionals, consultants, and industry experts for a full day of education, networking, and actionable strategies designed to help your agency thrive in an evolving healthcare environment.\nThis engaging, one-day event is open to everyone in the field and offers an opportunity to earn Continuing Education Units. Don’t miss out on this chance to learn, grow, and connect—we can’t wait to see you there!\nAttendees also have the opportunity for a CHANCE TO WIN Costco, Amazon, and Starbucks gift cards during our raffles throughout the day!\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”30px||30px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ text_line_height=”1em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nWhere and When\n📍 Maggiano’s Little Italy – Summerlin NV📅 Wednesday, November 11, 2026🕗 Full-Day Educational Workshop – 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”30px||30px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.9″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nPrice\nEarly Bird (ended Friday, September 18)\nStandard\nAvailable through Wednesday, October 28\nIndividual – $149.00 per person\nGroup (3+) – $120.00 per person\nLate Registration\nAvailable starting Thursday, October 29 through Tuesday, November 10\nIndividual – $199.00 per person\nSame Day Registration\nIndividual – $249.00 per person\nCancellation & Transfer Policy\n\nYou may transfer your registration to another attendee at any time at no additional charge.\nRefund requests received 14 days prior to the workshop are eligible for a refund less a 4% processing fee.\nRefunds requested within 14 days of the event are not available, but registrations may still be transferred to another attendee.\n\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”30px||30px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nAttendees will receive:\n\nan entire day of home health and hospice education\nCMS regulatory guidance strategies for increased accuracy in documentation and reimbursement\nup to 6 Continuing Education Units\na chance to win some really cool prizes during breaks and lunch!\n\n[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”30px||30px||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nEducational Sessions\nWhat Auditors Are Actually Finding: Therapy Documentation Failures in the Era of Targeted Review\nSpeaker: Natalie Venable, OTR/L, MOT with Thrive Healthcare Solutions\nThree documentation patterns are appearing repeatedly in current home health therapy denials — and most agencies don’t know they’re exposed until the demand letter arrives.\nFederal audit activity targeting home health therapy services has intensified, and the documentation gaps examiners are finding aren’t new. They’re the same vulnerabilities that have existed for years: poorly justified maintenance programs, missed or inadequate 30-day reassessments, and therapy goals that describe tasks instead of medical necessity. What has changed is the precision and frequency of targeted review — and the financial consequence of being caught unprepared.\nThis session translates the current targeted review landscape into concrete, clinician-level action. Drawing on real-time findings from active audits, attendees will leave knowing exactly where their documentation is exposed and what to do about it before a reviewer gets there first.\nUpon completion of this session, participants will be able to:\n\nIdentify the documentation elements required to establish and sustain medical necessity for maintenance therapy programs under current CMS guidance and targeted review criteria.\nRecognize the most common deficiencies in 30-day reassessment documentation and apply a compliant structure that satisfies both clinical and regulatory standards.\nConstruct therapy goals that demonstrate skilled need, functional relevance, and measurable progress — the three components most frequently cited in claim denial rationale.\nEvaluate your agency’s current therapy documentation practices against active audit criteria to identify systemic risk before a targeted review request is received.\n\nSpeaker Spotlight:\nNatalie Venable, OTR/L, MOT is the CEO and Founder of Thrive Healthcare Solutions, a home health and hospice consulting firm based in New Braunfels, Texas. With a clinical background in occupational therapy and executive experience directing clinical excellence across large multi-branch home health organizations, she brings a rare combination of frontline documentation expertise and systems-level risk analysis.\nNatalie holds certifications in COS-C, CHS-C, AFC- CP. She is a CHAP Certified Consultant and Certified Lean Healthcare Provider. She has contributed courses to Medbridge, partnered with CHAP for workshops, and consults actively on OASIS accuracy, PDGM, HHVBP/Star Ratings, federal audit response, and QAPI program development. Her consulting work provides direct access to the real-time denial patterns that form the foundation of this session.\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nSurvey Readiness: What to Expect Before, During & After Your CMS Survey\nSpeaker: Natalie Venable, OTR/L, MOT with Thrive Healthcare Solutions\nA practical, plain-language walkthrough of the Medicare survey process for home health and hospice leaders, grounded in the CMS State Operations Manual’s Appendix B (Home Health) and Appendix M (Hospice). Using the shared seven-task framework surveyors follow, the session traces a survey from pre-arrival preparation through the entrance conference, sample selection, home visits and interviews, the exit conference, and the post-survey deadlines that follow — so leaders know exactly what to expect and how to prepare their teams.\nBy the end of this session, participants will be able to:\n\nExplain the seven-task survey framework CMS surveyors follow for both home health and hospice surveys, from pre-arrival preparation through the exit conference.\nDescribe how patients, families, and staff are sampled and interviewed during a survey, and what surveyors are listening and watching for.\nDistinguish standard-level from condition-level deficiencies, including what triggers Immediate Jeopardy and the deadlines that follow.\nRecognize the most commonly cited home health and hospice deficiencies and apply a year-round survey-readiness routine.\n\nSpeaker Spotlight:\nNatalie Venable, OTR/L, MOT is the CEO and Founder of Thrive Healthcare Solutions, a home health and hospice consulting firm based in New Braunfels, Texas. With a clinical background in occupational therapy and executive experience directing clinical excellence across large multi-branch home health organizations, she brings a rare combination of frontline documentation expertise and systems-level risk analysis.\nNatalie holds certifications in COS-C, CHS-C, AFC- CP. She is a CHAP Certified Consultant and Certified Lean Healthcare Provider. She has contributed courses to Medbridge, partnered with CHAP for workshops, and consults actively on OASIS accuracy, PDGM, HHVBP/Star Ratings, federal audit response, and QAPI program development. Her consulting work provides direct access to the real-time denial patterns that form the foundation of this session.\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nAI in Home Health\nSpeaker: Michael Tidd, COS-C, HCS-D with HealthCare Synergy, Inc.\nAs AI becomes more common in Home Health and Hospice, agencies must balance efficiency with compliance and documentation integrity. This webinar will explore practical uses of AI, regulatory considerations, and safeguards agencies should understand to help protect reimbursement and reduce risk.\nUpon completion of this session, participants will be able to:\n\nUnderstand the benefits AI can provide within your agency, including potential workflow efficiencies and time savings.\nDiscuss CMS viewpoints regarding AI use and how agencies can implement these tools while protecting compliance and documentation integrity.\nIdentify cautions associated with AI use and actions agencies should take to safely and effectively utilize these features.\nUnderstand HIPAA considerations and the importance of protecting patient information when using AI tools\n\nSpeaker Spotlight:\nMichael Tidd has over 20 years of experience in the Home Care Industry and is a frequent speaker at HealthCare Synergy Workshops and Webinars. He is a Software Developer, LVN, and Certified in ICD-9/10 Coding and OASIS (COS-C, HCS-D). As the Clinical Manager for HealthCare Synergy, he directs the Outsourced Management Services, assists in regulatory requirement of Synergy EMR, oversees the Clinical Documentation Auditing provided to clients, and participates on the clinical board for Synergy EMR. Michael continues to educate agencies on the ongoing regulations that CMS produces, the proper application of the Medicare Conditions of Participation, and completing timely, accurate, and defendable clinical documentation to survive in the current Medicare Reimbursement Model.\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nRevenue Cycle Optimization\nSpeaker: Scottie Strong, Founder of Strong Consulting Group Services\nThis session helps home health and hospice agencies evaluate how revenue cycle performance begins before admission and continues through referral acceptance, NOA/NOE timeliness, clinical documentation, billing review, LCD awareness, and claim follow-up.\nUpon completion of this session, participants will be able to:\n\nAssess referral acceptance decisions using staffing, clinical capacity, payer requirements, financial exposure, and hospice cap awareness.\nExplain the operational and payment impact of late NOA and NOE submissions, including hospice non-covered days and cap implications.\nIdentify practical points of interaction between intake, clinical, authorization, QA, and billing teams before claim submission.\nDevelop a revenue cycle monitoring process that reduces denials and prevents money from being left on the table.\n\nSpeaker Spotlight:\nScottie Strong is the founder of Strong Consulting Group Services and has served the home health and hospice industry since 1993. His work focuses on billing, administrative operations, Medicare reviews, compliance strategy, documentation, and agency workflow improvement.\nScottie has represented clients in well over 1,000 Administrative Law Judge hearings and has assisted with approximately 1,500 to 2,000 ADR reviews. He has also helped agencies respond to Focused Medical Review and develop strategies to return to a stronger compliance position.\nScottie also brings decades of experience working with Healthcare Synergy as an office automation consultant, sales consultant, and software design consultant, using the software as a tool to improve agency workflow, billing, documentation, and administrative efficiency. When OASIS was introduced in 2000, he worked with the State of California Department of Health Services to provide regional provider education on proper OASIS completion.\n[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]\nADR Appeals & Response Readiness\nSpeaker: Scottie Strong, Founder of Strong Consulting Group Services\nThis session helps home health and hospice agencies understand how to identify ADR activity early, manage response timelines, review records before submission, organize the response packet, and preserve appeal readiness when deficiencies are found.\nUpon completion of this session, participants will be able to:\n\nIdentify practical methods for monitoring ADRs before and after formal notice is received.\nExplain how to organize the ADR response process around timelines, record completeness, and clinical/billing consistency.\nRecognize common documentation and claim deficiencies that can lead to denial or appeal exposure.\nApply a structured approach to ADR submission and first-level appeal readiness without relying on product-specific tools.\n\nSpeaker Spotlight:\nScottie Strong is the founder of Strong Consulting Group Services and has served the home health and hospice industry since 1993. 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