Expert Speakers

Sandy has worked in the home health and hospice nursing fields the majority of her nursing career, along with nursing practice in a ventilator intensive care unit and pediatrics. She also has been a Medical Reviewer III with both Medical Review and Appeals at CGS. She focuses on training Medicare-certified home health and hospice providers. She received her bachelor's degree in nursing from Mercy College of Health Sciences and her bachelor's degree in business management from Upper Iowa University.

Arlynn Hansell has been a Physical Therapist in the home he, alth setting since October 1998, holding positions of field therapist, rehab manager, and quality/compliance assurance. As owner of Therapy and More, LLC, she assists agencies in achieving therapy documentation and practice excellence in order to better position themselves against auditors. Consulting services further consist of OASIS auditing and coding practice. She remains current with certifications in HCS-D, HCS-O, and COS-C. Arlynn has been a member of the American Physical Therapy Association since 1995, where she currently serves as the Vice President of the Home Health Section.

Robert's primary areas of practice are health law, Medicare/Medicaid compliance, fraud and abuse, employment law and litigation. He is certified in health care compliance by the Health Care Compliance Board. Robert assists clients including county health departments, home health agencies, private duty agencies, hospices and physicians with a wide range of health care compliance and litigation issues.

Maxim counts 32 years as a home health agency owner, administrator and consultant, though her nursing career began well before that. She now heads Troy, Mich.-based A.D. Maxim & Associates, specializing in homecare and hospice management, clinical and administrative support for its agency clients. She also is the founder of A.D. Maxim Seminars, which presents educational programs on OASIS, ICD-9 coding techniques and clinical documentation, and the National Coding Center, which offers client HHAs correct coding by qualified coders. Arlene has done extensive research in outcome management using clinical documentation and specific data elements.

Twombly also is the technical reviewer for both the Diagnosis Coding Pro for Home Health newsletter and BMSC’s on-line ICD-10 education courses. She also is assisting home health agencies with ICD-10 training, coding audits, OASIS reviews and other consulting through DecisionHealth’s Professional Services unit.