Sacramento | Financial, Quality, and Strategic Management Under PDGM – What Lies Ahead in 2026!
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Financial/Quality/Strategic Management
This comprehensive day of The Patient Driven Groupings Model (PDGM) is going to give agencies the biggest and best chance to fully understand the current model and coming changes. This will assist in confirming the need for additional changes within your agencies. This workshop provides a quick overview of the PDGM structure and operations along with a review of the concerns and opportunities triggered by PDGM. The Financial portion of the workshop will assist agencies in monitoring their impact and analyzing what will be necessary to adjust with coming updates in 2026. Strategic Management will include operational decisions regarding the Revenue Cycle, Clinical Operations and Quality reporting. The Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model which has taken our agencies by storm, will be reviewed in detail, analyzing the first two years of results and where we are headed with 2026 changes.
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
This workshop will include a variety of topics including a PDGM Overview, Clinical, Financial, Operations, and Strategies to Best Manage your Medicare Home Health Agency:
- Outline the structure of PDGM and key points affecting you and your agency and the industry at large
- Develop a plan to control the impact of recent updates on your agency
- Measure the financial impact of payment cuts in PDGM on your organization
- Outline how PDGM will require agencies to consider process changes in their business operations
- Understand the impact of OASIS-E1/E2 and ICD-10 coding on PDGM results
- Detail the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model and how it changes the way we look at Quality
- Detail Changes Proposed for Home Health CAHPS Survey for April 2026
- Outline Best Practices for Managing Your Medicare Home Health Agency
FACULTY
Melinda Gaboury, COS-C
Chief Executive Officer
Healthcare Provider Solutions, Inc.
Melinda A. Gaboury, with more than 33 years in home care, has over 23 years of executive speaking and educating experience, including extensive day to day interaction with home care and hospice professionals. She routinely conducts Home Care and Hospice Reimbursement Workshops and speaks at state association meetings throughout the country. Melinda has profound experience in Medicare PDGM training, billing, collections, case-mix calculations, chart reviews and due diligence. UPIC, RA, ADR & TPE appeals with all Medicare MACs have become the forefront of Melinda’s current impact on the industry. She is currently serving as Chair of the The Alliance/HHFMA Advisory Board and Work Group and is serving on the board of the Home Care Association of Florida and the Tennessee Association for Home Care. Melinda is also the author of the Home Health OASIS Guide to OASIS-E1 and Home Health Billing Answers, 2025.
CANCELLATIONS
Cancellations are subject to 20% handling fee. There will be NO REFUNDS issued for cancellations received within 10 business days prior to program. Cancellations must be in writing. Refunds will not be made for no-shows. However, substitutions will be allowed. Should CAHSAH® cancel the program, a full registration fee refund will be issued.
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION & CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs)
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (Provider #CEP17394) for six (6) contact hours of continuing education. You must be present for the entire workshop to earn Continuing Education Units. No partial credits can be given. Certificates are distributed at the close of the program.
To place a registration by phone please call (916) 262-6800.
REGISTRATION RATES
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1-Day
Workshop
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Lunch (provided)
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Workshop
*Not a CAHSAH Member? Contact Michele Lander at mlander@cahsah.org to find out how you can join and receive member benefit discounted registration rates for all CAHSAH education programs.
- SPONSORS -
Kristine Fitzpatrick
Chief Financial Officer
916.276.7032
kfitzpatrick@cahsah.org