ADVION

📲 Join ADVION as we celebrate Telehealth Awareness Week. We recognize the senior population our members serve where virtual care is far more than a convenience. It's often what makes care possible, bridging clinician shortages, reaching rural and underserved areas, and helping an already stretched workforce reach seniors where they live.

🏠 For many older adults, getting to an appointment can be the biggest barrier to care. Telehealth brings care to the patient while supporting continued treatment, enabling timely check-ins, and helping clinicians address concerns before they become hospitalizations.

🏛️ Congress extended Medicare's telehealth flexibilities through 2027. That's a good start, but it isn't enough. Providers can't build lasting programs on two-year deadlines, and seniors shouldn't lose access to their therapist every time a funding bill stalls. It's time to make these flexibilities permanent, including the ability of PTs, OTs, and SLPs to furnish telehealth under Medicare.

📣 Join our advocacy movement by visiting our website at:
🔗 https://www.advionadvocates.org/advocacy-center

⏰ The Countdown Is On: Join Us in Boston for ADVION’s 37th Annual Meeting!

We are delighted to welcome John Kane with Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living and Maureen McCarthy with Celtic Consulting as opening presenters at ADVION’s 37th Annual Meeting. Their featured session, “Rehab’s Role in Health Care Reform: Driving Outcomes in Value-Based and Episode-Based Payment Models,” will explore the critical role rehabilitation providers play in advancing quality care and driving success in an evolving healthcare landscape.

📅 October 11–13, 2026
📍 Boston, Massachusetts

Join executive leaders, industry innovators, and policy experts for three days of meaningful education, strategic discussions, and unparalleled networking opportunities. Together, we will explore the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of long-term, post-acute, and senior care.

Don't miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation and connect with the leaders driving change across our industry.

➡️ Register today 🔗 https://nasl.site-ym.com/event/37thAnnual

🎯Looking for meaningful ways to put your company in front of LTPAC’s decision-makers?

ADVION’s 37th Annual Meeting brings together C-suite executive leaders, strategic decision-makers, rehab therapy organizations, health IT innovators, post-acute providers, and other industry leaders.

Our 2026 Sponsorship Opportunities offer visibility, connection, and direct access to the people shaping the future of senior care and LTPAC.

📈 Elevate Your Company. Expand Your Impact. ⏰ There is still time to sponsor!

Explore sponsorship opportunities and join us in Boston, October 11-13, 2026!

➡️ Check out our sponsorship menu:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/gPx64BRT
or email: 📩 Laura de la Calzada at: [email protected]

Thank you current ADVION Sponsors:
🔹ACP - Accelerated Care Plus
🔹Aegis Therapies
🔹American Senior Communities
🔹Athelas
🔹Broad River Rehab
🔹ceu360
🔹Consonus Healthcare
🔹Net Health
🔹Powerback

📣 Meet the experts taking the stage at ADVION’s 37th Annual Meeting.

From AI and health IT to value-based care, I-SNPs, workforce challenges, and the future of rehabilitation, this year’s program goes beyond education. Every session and networking opportunity is thoughtfully curated to spark collaboration, build strategic connections, and turn fresh perspectives into practical action.

When you join us, you can expect:

🔹 Strategic networking with executive thought leaders and peers facing the same workforce challenges
🔹 Share ideas and solutions through ADVION’s committee meetings
🔹 Explore what’s next for LTPAC and rehabilitation therapy and how to stay ahead of the curve

In addition, the ADVION 37th Annual Meeting will be co-located with AHCA/NCAL Delivering Solutions 26, and will feature our co-hosted, half-day, clinically focused pre-conference the ADVION/AHCA Rehabilitation Therapy Symposium at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center.

📆 October 11–13, 2026
📍 Boston, MA | Omni Boston Seaport Hotel
➡️ Register at 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gQimWHz8

💡Curious about ADVION's Annual Meeting?

If you've never attended an ADVION Annual Meeting, this complimentary information session offers an opportunity to learn what the experience is all about.

During this brief 30 minute session, we'll provide an overview of the conference, including the educational programming, networking opportunities, committee and workgroup engagement, and what attendees can expect throughout the event. We'll also share how this year's co-location with American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) Delivering Solutions 26 expands the overall experience and creates additional opportunities to connect with leaders across the long-term and post-acute care community.

Whether you're simply exploring the meeting or considering attending for the first time, we invite you to join us, ask questions, and learn more about what makes the ADVION Annual Meeting a valuable industry gathering.

📅 Wednesday, August 5, 2026
🕐 1:00 – 1:30 PM ET
💻 Complimentary Webinar
🔗 https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z9X-9XlWRcOKR8ew4jh-AA #/registration

🚨Update from ADVION: HHS delayed its biggest HIPAA Security Rule update in over a decade; pushed from this year to July 2027.

The proposed rule would mandate encryption, multi-factor authentication, and annual pe*******on testing (currently just best practices). The delay follows nearly 5,000 public comments and pushback from 100+ health systems over cost and timeline concerns.

Meanwhile, a separate HIPAA Privacy Rule update, focused on care coordination and caregiver access, is still on track for around August.
Cybersecurity in healthcare remains a priority; the deadline just moved.

Access the full article here:
🔗 https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/feds-push-back-hipaa-security-rule-overhaul-july-2027







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📣 CMS released the Physician Fee Schedule last night-- ADVION estimates impact below for therapy providers and a few highlights:

🔹ADVION estimates a 1.68% decrease in CPT code values overall from the CY 2026 Conversion Factor of $33.4009 using the NonQualifying APM update factor. The decrease is largely due to the loss of the 2.5% increase provided by Congress which only applies to 2026.

🔹ADVION analyzed the 10 most-billed therapy codes and we believe our members should see an overall increase of approximately 1.5%— a figure that reflects real-world billing patterns in the long term care sector. This is driven in part by high-volume therapy codes seeing gains. ADVION has been meeting with CMS and calling for the year to year decreases in RVU values in our codes to end. We are grateful to see values stabilize and even increase for key codes. If your estimate is different – get in touch and let’s talk!

🔹CMS reflected the AMA’s recommendation on splitting the SLP code 92507 into 10 codes. ADVION could not model these because we don’t have any historical utilization of these new codes.

🔹 CMS puts quite a bit of focus on the remote monitoring codes citing the OIG report. The push to is control utilization—for example a proposal to only treat established patients.

🎉 Includes a big win for physician and nurse practitioners treating nursing home patients—CMS proposes to fix a change it made last year to the reimbursement of codes. Reimbursement was different whether the patient was Part A or B even when the service was the same. Good for CMS to quickly address this!
Comments due 9/14.

Want to join us for briefings and discussions on the rule?
Get in touch in the comments below! ⬇️

🔗 Read the full article here: https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-proposes-transformational-medicare-reforms-expand-accountable-care-modernize-physician-payment

The summer payment rules have begun...
🏠 Home health-- CMS proposes an increase of 2.4% ($420 million) for CY 2027. 📈Also proposing a temporary payment adjustment of -3.0% to continue recouping retrospective overpayments stemming from behavior changes associated with the PDGM implementation in CYs 2020–2025. CMS is not proposing an additional permanent adjustment for CY 2027, as it believes behavior changes in preliminary CY 2025 claims data may not be directly attributable to PDGM.

➡️ More to Come:
🔗 https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2026-13602/calendar-year-2027-home-health-prospective-payment-system-rate-update-etc