Amanda Wetzel

SNF Consolidated Billing Specialist

Amanda Wetzel is the SNF Consolidated Billing Specialist at Consolidated Billing Services, Inc (CBSI). Prior to coming to work for CBSI Amanda spent 7 years providing SNF Consolidated Billing support for a large SNF Operator with facilities throughout the east coast and all of Florida. She has a strong background in medical billing, accounts payable, and customer service. Prior to specializing in SNF Consolidated Billing, Amanda worked as a Medical Office Assistant for a private Neurosurgery practice in New York. Amanda specializes in training and supporting medical billing professionals, showing them the tools and resources they need for successful billing in compliance with Medicare Consolidated Billing Guidelines. 

Amy Adolay

Attorney

Amy Adolay serves as Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice. Ms. Adolay counsels employers on complex human resources issues that arise on a daily basis in the workplace and defends employers before administrative agencies and in state and federal courts. Ms. Adolay handles a wide variety of types of claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, family and medical leave, disabilities, unemployment compensation, wage and hour, and restrictive covenants. Ms. Adolay also routinely reviews, revises, and drafts employment related documents such as employee handbooks, employment policies and procedures, employment agreements, severance and retention agreements, and non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. Ms. Adolay’s extensive employment law experience has included representing employers in collective actions and litigating complex claims relating to discrimination, restrictive covenants, and various other employment and contract disputes. She also regularly speaks and writes on important changes facing employers in employment law. Ms. Adolay’s school law experience includes advising administrators and school corporations on various issues relating to staff, students, and parent/guardian issues. She has also assisted sororities and fraternities in navigating a wide range of legal issues. Ms. Adolay is active in firm management, serving on the firm’s five-member Executive Committee.

Andrea Osborne

VillageMD

Andrea Osborne has been working in the healthcare field for over 20 years. She is passionate about caring for the elderly and helping patients to achieve their best quality of life. Andrea works for VillageMD having had multiple rolls including Managing Director of Operations for the Indianapolis market and the national Vice President of Post-acute care. She currently is Senior Vice President of Delegated Services overseeing all CMMI models for VillageMD. In her tenor of operating models under CMMI, Andrea has managed multiple at-risk programs across the nation including MSSP, Next Generation ACO, and DCE programs. She takes especially great pride in the Primaria ACO which always had a quality score over 98% and saved CMS over $61M in 3 years. Currently she operates multiple national Direct Contracting entities and works closely with CMMI on the policies for this program. Andrea received her MS in Therapeutic Recreation from Indiana University. She has practiced in both acute and sub-acute settings as a certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist. During her years practicing she was active in the NCTRC organization participating in multiple lobbying sessions on the hill meeting with U.S. Senators and Representatives to improve reimbursement and coverage of therapeutic recreation. She then obtained her licensure as a health facility administrator and had oversight for full campuses including skilled nursing, assisted living and independent senior living before being promoted to manage the business development of 78 facilities in the mid-west. Through this roll she facilitated preferred relationships with hospitals and ACO’s across Indiana, including writing the first capitated arrangement for SNF payment in Indiana under the NGACO.

Bill Hartung

Director of Reimbursement

Bill Hartung is the Director of Reimbursement for Consolidated Billing Services, Inc. He has over 35 years of experience in various roles in long‐term care. Bill owned Edgewood Consulting Group here in Indiana and was very involved in the transition to the casemix payment system and passage of the provider tax. He has served as the Vice President, Research at the American Health Care Association, and Vice President, Reimbursement for Trilogy Health Services. Bill is a Certified Public Accountant, and gained his experience in the census development topic through his role as Director of Payment Innovation and Analytics at CarDon & Associates.

Claudia Blumenstock, LNHA

Founder and CEO

Claudia Blumenstock, Founder and CEO of Copernicus, Inc., is a nationally recognized presenter and consultant with over 30 years of experience in long-term care. As a licensed nursing home administrator and health care professional, she has helped to bring facilities through crises by creating work environments that value staff and focus on respectful and trusting relationships. This kind of collaborative atmosphere, in turn, enhances staff engagement and retention. Her innovative and interactive techniques, educational programs and consulting services provide practical strategies to manage adversity, enhance communication skills, build relationships and improve recruitment and retention.
Claudia has been a trainer under the Advanced Training Initiative funded by the New York State Department of Health. She has also been a Coach on a New York State grant project whose goal was to improve resident satisfaction in long term care facilities.
Working with facilities throughout the country, Claudia has helped leaders grapple with COVID and its effects on workforce hiring and retention, identifying strategies to manage the changing employment marketplace and to attract younger staff to long term care work.

Deborah Lake, RN, RAC-CT

Senior Managing Consultant

Deborah is a member of FORVIS. She concentrates on Medicare and Medicaid case-mix reimbursement and compliance in the long-term care industry and on completion and coordination of the resident assessment instrument/minimum data set (RAI/MDS). She provides clinical consulting, training and follow-up for health care providers to ensure appropriate reimbursement and regulation compliance. She has over 30 years of experience in long term care including positions as director of nursing, staff development coordinator, corporate nursing coordinator and nurse consultant. Prior to joining FORVIS, Deborah was a regional director of clinical reimbursement for a large long-term care corporation. She is a frequent presenter on issues related to the MDS 3.0 and SNF PPS for various state health care associations across the Midwest. She is a registered nurse (RN) and is credentialed by the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators (AANAC) as a Resident Assessment Coordinator – Certified (RAC-CT®) and has served as a corporate master trainer for that organization. Deborah graduated from Lutheran Hospital School of Nursing, Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1979 with a Diploma in Nursing and attended Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.

Dr. Dan Rusyniak

Secretary

Daniel Rusyniak, M.D., was appointed as secretary of the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration by Governor Eric J. Holcomb, effective August 1, 2021. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Rusyniak served as FSSA’s chief medical officer. He is also continuing his work as a professor of emergency medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. 

Dr. Rusyniak graduated from Villanova University and earned his medical degree from Wake Forest University. He completed an emergency medicine residency and medical toxicology fellowship at the IU School of Medicine. Dr. Rusyniak served several roles at the IU School of Medicine including vice-chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine, medical director of the Indiana Poison Control Center, division chief of Medical Toxicology, and a term as faculty president. In addition, Dr. Rusyniak was a National Institutes of Health-funded researcher studying the medical impact of substance use disorders. He has had over 100 publications, a podcast and a blog and is a nationally recognized expert in the field of toxicology. 

As the FSSA chief medical officer, Dr. Rusyniak was one of the leaders during the statewide COVID-19 response serving as the point person for long-term care facilities. He was the executive sponsor for the state’s efforts to reform Indiana’s long-term services and supports system and was the project director for the state’s Pregnancy Promise Program – a program funded by a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services grant to improve health outcomes in pregnant women with opioid use disorder. 

Dr. David Friend

Marcum LLP

Dr. David Friend is Marcum’s healthcare practice leader for the Midwest region and chairs the Firm’s National Healthcare Thought Leadership Committee.

For more than 30 years, Dr. Friend has provided strategic, management, clinical, tactical and financial acumen across a wide range of healthcare enterprises. He has served as a C-suite executive, chief medical officer, chief strategy officer, board director and advisor for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, health systems, academic medical centers, physician groups, insurance companies, life sciences, private equity, technology and post-acute care organizations.

His leadership roles have included:

• CEO of Senior Care, the largest post-acute care provider in Texas
• Chief clinical officer of Golden Living, ranked #1 post-acute care by US News & World Report
• President and chief medical officer of Aseracare Hospice and Home Health
• Global health care partner and board member at Willis Towers Watson
• Managing director in healthcare at Alvarez & Marsal
• Advisor on over $1 billion in health care real estate transactions
• Visiting scientist in digital health at Mass General Brigham Hospital
• President and chief medical officer of Aseracare, the fourth largest hospice and home health provider in the U.S.
• External Advisory Board of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Policy at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS

• Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, External Advisory Board Member
• University of Connecticut School of Medicine and John Dempsey Teaching Hospital, Founding Board Member
• Fallon Health, Former Board Member

Dr. Maria Wilson

Executive Medical Director - Central Division

She completed her undergraduate studies at Prairie View A&M University in Texas. Then went on to University of Louisville School of Medicine and IU School of Medicine where she trained as an internist. Outpatient primary care for those who struggle to get good care has always been her passion. She started 5 years ago with OSH as a center based physician on the westside of Indianapolis but is now part of the Dyad that leads Oak Street Health’s presence in MI, IN, OH, KY, and TN. Working in the value based care space allows her to pursue her purpose – working to address Health Inequities not just in IN but broadly across the markets that Oak Street has a presence. She is a wife, mother, and mentor. She is also a member of Central Indiana’s Council on Aging’s (CICOA) Medical Advisory Council.

Ellen Bartoldus

LMSW & LNHA

Ellen Bartoldus is a licensed nursing home administrator and geriatric social worker, with over 30 years’ experience in both community and residential elder care. As a long-term care administrator, she has guided facilities through environments of major change and disruption, while maintaining a high quality of resident care and staff stability. She has served as Vice President for Clinical and Corporate Ethics in a large non-profit senior care organization, an adjunct instructor in clinical ethics and is the author of “Medical Futility: A Nursing Home Perspective”. Ellen was the first project guide for the Green House Project and has presented nationally and internationally on this innovative model.
Ellen brings to this work practical experience in knowing and meeting the needs of front-line staff, enhancing the skills of department directors and middle managers, and modeling transparent and authentic leadership. She is committed to helping nursing homes and assisted living organizations develop strategies to create strong, welcoming communities that enhance meaningful lives for residents and create positive work environments for the caregivers who support them.

Fred Payne

Commissioner

Fred Payne was appointed Commissioner of the Indiana Department of Workforce Development (DWD) by Governor Eric Holcomb in December 2017. Commissioner Payne serves as the DWD’s Chief Executive, and biggest agency and DWD employee champion. Commissioner Payne leads a team of more than 1,000, whose primary focus is connecting Hoosiers, employers and the community with work, training and opportunities. He is considered one of the foremost experts on workforce and labor, and excels at translating local and national data, and its implications. Commissioner Payne is an advocate for a thriving workforce because of its contributions to a strong state economy and vibrant communities, to the benefit of all Hoosiers. Commissioner Payne also serves on the Governor’s Workforce Cabinet and chairs the Governor’s Health Workforce Council. Commissioner Payne joined DWD from the private sector, specifically Honda Manufacturing of Indiana. He spent more than a decade at Honda and served in a variety of leadership roles including chief administrator, general counsel and compliance officer, among others – and is credited with starting key organizational initiatives including the office of inclusion & diversity, corporate governance and risk management. Commissioner Payne brings experience in private law practice, where he represented employers in employment and labor law matters before federal and state courts and government/administrative agencies throughout the U.S. Commissioner Payne is a servant leader at heart. He grew up the son of a Southern preacher and embraced early opportunities to join his family in community outreach and giving back. Commissioner Payne is a graduate of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and Grambling State University. He serves on the board of directors for the Indy Eleven Foundation, Indianapolis Urban League and Honda Federal Credit Union, and considers one of his most rewarding, and enlightening, roles that of husband to his wife, Kelly, and father of four beautiful children. Commissioner Payne is still partial to his home state of Louisiana but now considers himself a proud Hoosier.

Jerome Nypaver

Director of Laboratory Operations

Jerome Nypaver is the Director of Laboratory Operations at Patients Choice Laboratories in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has more than 12 years of clinical expertise and experience within the biomedical laboratory field. He was one of the first people to investigate and create a test for urinary tract infections by PCR with the addition of antibiotic resistance. He has since developed further UTI, Wound, Nail, Respiratory, Women’s Health and Gastrointestinal testing panels, innovating and designing new bacterial and antibiotic resistance primers for the use of clinical utility. Jerome developed the workflow for COVID-19 at PCL, which later was used throughout the state of Indiana and eventually Quest Diagnostics for the timely processing and reporting of the SARS-CoV-2. He leads the molecular program at PCL, which was one of the first labs, and first to publish, that sub-typing or genotyping of the SARS-CoV-2 variants could effectively be preformed by PCR, leading to faster results and better clinical outcomes for those infected by the pandemic virus. Jerome has worked at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, aiding in the creation of a cell separation testing for multiple myeloma, along with aiding other research projects through the Cytogenetic and Molecular genetic departments. He worked at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, GA where Jerome helped develop and validated numerous infectious disease assays to be preformed by PCR, such as Zika, Dengue fever, CMV and EBV. Jerome has worked with other private laboratories aiding in the development of tumor profiling, growth of pharmacogenetics, evaluation of infectious disease panels and the research and development of cannabis pharmacogenomics in aid of medicinal uses and dosing. Jerome graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Genomics and Molecular Genetics from Michigan State University in 2010 and went back to MSU for his master’s degree in Biomedical Laboratory Operations, studying not only genetics, but flow cytometry, toxicology, serology, and pathology. Jerome earned a special graduate certification in Laboratory Operations while at MSU and graduated with honors. Jerome actively participates in the growth of current Michigan State students through a mentor program. He is certified by the American Society for Clinical Pathology in Cytogenetics. Jerome has previously sat on the Long-Term Care Subcommittee for sepsis and how best to address these issues within health care settings for the state in Indiana.

Linda Larsen

Speaker

Linda Larsen, BSW, MFA, CPAE, is one of only 232 people worldwide to be inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame®, joining such notables as General Colin Powell, President Ronald Reagan and
Brian Tracy. She has been a featured presenter for over 1,000 conferences and meetings worldwide for groups such as Jaguar Cars, the Kuwait Women’s Leadership Summit and McDonalds.
Linda combines her 20-year experience as a professional actress with her education and training in communications and behavioral sciences to deliver entertaining, memorable, power-packed
presentations that help people bring the very best versions of themselves to life and work. Author of the best-selling audio program, 12 Steps to High Self-Esteem, and featured in such publications as
Investor’s Business Daily, The Chicago Tribune and Opportunity World, Linda is also a popular guest co-host on the ABC-7 Florida television show, The Suncoast View.

Lindsay Ramsey

Attorney

Lindsay Ramsey’s area of practice exclusively focuses on immigration law and includes filing employment-based petitions with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on behalf of hospitals, health care entities, physician practice groups, corporations, businesses and individuals across the United States. Lindsay routinely files J-1 Waivers for those Subject to 212(e), H-1B Petitions, O-1 Petitions for Extraordinary Ability Aliens, L-1 Petitions for Intracompany Transferees, Trade NAFTA (TN) Applications and R-1 Petitions for Religious Workers, as well as Schedule A Permanent Residency Petitions for Registered Nurses and Physical Therapists, Permanent Residency through the PERM Labor Certification process (EB-2 and EB-3), National Interest Waivers for Physicians practicing in a Medically Underserved Area (EB-2) and EB-1 petitions for Extraordinary Ability Aliens, Outstanding Professors and Researchers and Multinational Executives and Managers. Lindsay also prepares family-based immigrant petitions and applications for U.S. Citizenship. 

Lori Davenport, RN

Director of Regulatory Clinical Affairs

A native of Indiana, Lori Davenport has an extensive background in Long Term Care Clinical Operations and Regulatory Compliance. Prior to joining IHCA, Lori worked with Life Care Services for 8 years and served as a Senior Nurse Consultant. Lori’s responsibilities included directing and supporting global implementation and education of clinical programs and establishing best practices to support post-acute care strategies for a nationwide business portfolio. Lori has worked in several capacities in her 30 year nursing career including Director of Nursing Services, Director of Quality & Risk Management, and Executive Director for a Home Health agency serving a tri state area. Lori Attended Indiana University in Bloomington and earned her nursing degree at Anderson University in Anderson Indiana. Lori’s true passion is working with seniors across the health care continuum and in making a positive difference in our resident’s quality of life.

Dr. Lori Sieboldt

Chief Medical Officer

Dr. Sieboldt is the Chief Medical Officer of Innovative Healthcare Collaborative of Indiana (IHCI), a population health joint venture company between Deaconess Health System, Evansville, Indiana and Community Health Network Indianapolis, Indiana. IHCI oversees several value-based contracts totaling approximately 245,000 covered lives. In addition to her role as Chief Medical Officer of IHCI, she is the Medical Director of both Deaconess’ Population Health program and the Deaconess Care Integration ACO. She is a 2020 Modern Healthcare Top 25 Innovator Award recipient for her work in population health and a 2021 MBA Poets and Quants Award recipient for her work at the IU Kelly School of Business, Business of Medicine MBA program. 

Previous leadership roles for Dr. Sieboldt include System Director of Case Management, Post-Acute Care, and Physician Advising Services for Deaconess Health System, as well as Lead Physician Advisor, a program she helped create in 2017.  

She is board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians with physician advisor sub-specialty designation. 

An emergency physician by training, she practiced approximately 12 years before transitioning into leadership roles. Dr. Sieboldt completed her medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine residency at Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio, and her MBA in the Business of Medicine from Indiana University Kelley School of Business. 

Stephanie Eckerle

Attorney

Stephanie Eckerle devotes her practice to representing businesses in an array of corporate, real estate and healthcare matters. This includes representation of entrepreneurs as well as established and national companies with everyday operational and legal issues as well as complex transactions. Within the healthcare industry, Ms. Eckerle focuses her practice on providing regulatory, compliance and corporate advice to physicians, practice groups, pharmacies, on-site employer healthcare clinics and other healthcare institutions. She counsels these clients on an array of regulatory matters, including pharmaceutical matters, reimbursement issues, fraud and abuse issues and licensure matters. In addition, Ms. Eckerle counsels healthcare providers and health plans on HIPAA and state privacy laws, including the identification, investigation and remediation of breach incidents, compliance programs and health information technology issues. She also works with providers on physician employment agreements, non-competition issues and telemedicine and telepharmacy issues. Within the healthcare arena, Ms. Eckerle also works with employers to implement health and wellness programs for their employees, which includes counseling on occupational health and wellness initiatives, worker’s compensation issues and the implementation of on-site employer clinics.

Stephanie Staples, CSP

Speaker

Join master motivator Stephanie Staples for this fast-paced, interactive and idea-packed session that will have you laughing, thinking and inspired to take immediate action that will positively impact your life and livelihood.  

Buckle up, this author, radio host and social entrepreneur works with busy professionals from the Mayo Clinic to the Middle East to help them live their lives with full gusto and she is ready to light a fire here with us, too!  

She is the Women Entrepreneur of the Year winner for Contributions to Community, a wife, mom and triathlete (she came in last, but who’s counting?) with programs proven to increase feelings of hope, happiness & empowerment for participants. 

Are you impressed yet? She also bakes a mean chocolate chip cookie! 

Steve Gilliland

Hall of Fame Speaker

A member of the Speaker Hall of Fame, Steve Gilliland is one of the most in-demand and top-rated speakers in the world. Recognized as a master storyteller and bril-liant comedian, he can be heard daily on Sirius XM Radio’s Laugh USA and Jeff & Larry’s Comedy Roundup. With an appeal that tran-scends barriers of age, culture and occupation—plus an interactive and entertaining style—Steve shows audiences how to open doors to success in their ca-reers, their relationships and their lives. Presenting to over 250,000 people a year, more than two million have now heard him speak, with audiences encompassing 51 industries. Steve has the distinction of speaking in all 50 states and in 15 countries. As one newspaper stated, “Steve is what happens when the humor of a stand-up comic collides with the inspiration of a motiva-tional speaker.”