July 2024: Preview Period Webinar for Payment Year 2025

(Tue, July 16th 2024, 2:00 pm ET)

Presenters

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  Alissa Kapke, MS

  Ms. Kapke provides support for the Health Policy and Practice Program area of Arbor Research. Presently she is the managing analyst on the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Incentive Program (QIP) project, which provides validation of final performance scores and payment reductions for over 5,000 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities in the United States, help desk support during the score preview period, and analytic support for the ESRD QIP Final Rule, published yearly in the Federal Register. Ms. Kapke received an MS in Biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 1996. She is also a managing analyst for the U.S. Renal Data Systems project. She previously served as a senior analyst on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ESRD Quality Measure Development and Maintenance contract. Prior to joining Arbor Research in 2010, Ms. Kapke was a biostatistician at Henry Ford Hospital for ten years where she was funded on several National Institutes of Health grants in areas of cancer, stroke, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and Parkinson’s disease research. She also was a consulting statistician to physicians and residents at Henry Ford Hospital and served as a statistician on the hospital’s Institutional Review Board from 2007-2009. Ms. Kapke has co-authored several papers accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and contributed to many abstracts presented at major scientific meetings.
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  Steve Hines, PhD

  Dr. Hines is a Senior Research Scientist at Arbor Research with more than 30 years of professional experience in process improvement and health services research, with a special focus on healthcare quality improvement, applied quality measurement, the creation and dissemination of quality improvement resources and tools. He has expertise in applied quality measurement, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, report writing, and the development of large-scale improvement campaigns. Prior to joining Arbor Research, LLC, Dr. Hines served as a Principal Associate at Abt Associates, where he functioned as the learning lead for an AHRQ-funded initiative to expand participation in cardiac rehabilitation programs and led the updating of TeamSTEPPS, an AHRQ-funded communication and teamwork training curriculum. At IMPAQ International, Dr. Hines led a national project to prepare providers in small, underserved, and rural practices for the transition to the new CMS Quality Payment Program. He also led multiple national improvement initiatives funded by AHRQ and CMS while working at the American Hospital Association.
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  Nan Ji, MS

  Ms. Ji is a Senior Research Analyst at Arbor Research Collaborative for Health with over nine years of experience working on data analysis in healthcare area. She holds an MS degree in Statistics from the University of Toledo (UT). She is currently providing analytical support for the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Quality Incentive Program (QIP) project, which includes performing validation of performance scores and payment reductions for dialysis facilities, answering facilities’ inquiries during the annual preview period, and conducting statistical analyses for the ESRD QIP Final Rules. Previously she also contributed to the production of the Annual Data Report (ADR) of the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), as well as the Home Health Value-Based Purchasing (HHVBP) Program funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).