Sessions
Medicare Target, Probe, & Educate Audits: What Providers Need to Know
9:15 AM - 10:15 AM Wed
PDPM Update with October 1, 2023 MDS Changes
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Wed
A member of FORVIS’s National Health Care Group, Sherri has more than 30 years of experience and focuses on long-term care. She provides clinical consulting for health care providers and educates providers about Medicare reimbursement strategies. Sherri has trained numerous skilled nursing facilities as well as swing bed and skilled nursing units about proper minimum data set completion to manage the Medicare program. She performs comprehensive follow-up reviews focused on patient-centered care and regulation compliance to help providers obtain appropriate Medicare reimbursement. Sherri also assists clients with Medicaid case mix education, strategies and monitoring for successful programs. Prior to joining FORVIS, she had 15 years of health care experience as a director of nursing and administrator in a skilled nursing facility and worked as a LPN and CNA. As a CLNC, Sherri assists attorneys representing health care providers. As a RAC-CTA, she has expertise in advanced principles of clinical reimbursement, Medicare program compliance and integrity, RAI/MDS program integrity, leadership, ethical practice, managing medical reviews, accurate ICD-10 coding, advanced strategies for payment oversight, and improving a facility’s quality measurement in all CMS quality programs. She holds a current nursing home administrator’s license in the state of Missouri. She frequently presents to long-term care and senior living associations. She is a 1992 graduate of Mercy College of Nursing and Health Sciences of Southwest Baptist University, Springfield, MO, with a registered nurse certification, and a 1998 graduate of Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO, with a B.S. degree in nursing.