Skilled Nursing Breakout Session Track
Medicare & Post-Acute Care: Dynamic Changes on the Horizon
Thursday • 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
This session will deliver the latest on Medicare payment policy changes affecting the fiscal health of the center-based,
post-acute care sector. Presenters will address topics including the CMS reimbursement policy changes effective October
1, 2011, SNF Medicare rates for Fiscal Year 2012 and implications of pending policy changes measuring re-hospitalization
and value-based purchasing methodologies. Attendees will also hear the latest data on revenue and utilization trends for
post-acute care, trends in care delivery coordination, the unified post-acute assessment tool and the implications of pilot
programs for post-acute bundling.
Moderator:
George V. Hager, Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Genesis HealthCare Corporation
Speaker:
Laurence F. Lane, Vice President, Government Relations, Genesis HealthCare Corporation
Laurence Wilson, Director, Chronic Care Policy Group, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Advanced Underwriting: Looking Deeper into the Risks and Rewards of Skilled Nursing Finance
Thursday • 1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
When it comes to investing and lending in a complicated asset class such as long-term care, many factors come into play.
The better you understand these variables and how they affect cash flows and valuations, the more effective you become at
making the right decisions. Using a case study approach, this panel will evaluate a financing event, digging into factors
that create risk. Attendees will learn why capital providers look at certain factors and how they price and structure a
transaction to mitigate risk and yield an acceptable return.
Moderator:
James D. Scribner, Managing Director, RED Capital Group
Speakers:
Steven Curwin, Chief Credit and Risk Officer, MidCap Financial, LLC
Steven J. Insoft, Chief Financial Officer, Aviv REIT, Inc.
David K. Ronck, President, Meridian Realty Advisors, L.P.
Medicaid: How Will This Tattered Safety Net Evolve?
Friday • 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
For a realistic assessment of Medicaid – its strengths and weaknesses – this session features a panel of experts with hands-on
examples of how some states are altering their programs to offer services while exercising fiscal constraint. Topics include
strategies for meeting long-term living services, rebalancing initiatives and related policy, fiscal and political factors,
how these changes affect the provision of long-term care services, and what the provider-level impact of these changes is,
including mitigation strategies.
Moderator:
Leonard Russ, Prinicipal Partner, Bayberry Health Care
Speakers:
Doug Burr, SVP of Finance Reimbursement & Government Relations
Joseph DeMattos, Jr., President, Health Facilities Association of Maryland (HFAM)
Bob Wood, President, BGR Group, LLC
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