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August 2019 Medicare Webinar
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August 14, 2019
Brought to you by HomeTown Health, LLC and our Best Practice Solution Partners, Industry Experts and
Educational Trainers
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August 2019 Medicare Webinar
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Dale Gibson; Medicare Consulting
Dale Gibson started his own Medicare consulting business in 1997, and is now well-known among
HomeTown Health’s network as the “Medicare Expert”. Dale began his healthcare care in 1980 as a Business
Office Manager for a large hospital in Fort Walton Beach, FL that was part of Humana. He briefly worked for HHL in Miami Florida in 1989, before returning to Humana as a Corporate Consultant for Business Offices. In 1993, he became a Medicare Consultant through a merger with
HCA. Dale completed his B.S. from Troy State University. He resides in Pensacola, Florida.
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Leanne Layne; Independent Hospital Consultant
Leanne graduated from the University of Georgia with a BA in Political Science and an MBA in
Business. She has worked in physician office settings as a Front Office Manager and Site Manager. Leanne has also worked in the hospital setting as a part of the accounting department and also as a Business Office
Director. Now, she works as a consultant with Dale Gibson and works to keep up with Medicare
Advantage plan changes. She has a passion for helping hospitals each day.
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Trainer Biography: Kerry Dunning
Kerry has over 30 years in the health care industry, and over 25 specifically working in post-acute. She worked for national rehabilitation chains in varied roles and in hospital leadership positions. Kerry has experience with start-up units/facilities, programs beginning Medicare services, ongoing management of hospital business office operations, IRF units, skilled facility operations, and in 100-day turn around programs centered on cost reduction, cost avoidance and revenue enhancement.
As a consultant, Kerry has worked with swing beds (CAH and PPS), skilled nursing units, freestanding and hospital-owned long term care facilities. She has served as an educator for hospital and LTC associations, hospital associations and for CAH associations in the areas of corporate compliance, Medicare compliance, medical necessity documentation, therapy services, and coding/billing. She is the primary SNF/Swing Bed consultant for two rural health state associations and a presenter at two other rural health associations annually.
Her international work includes projects in Russia (training and starting the first nursing home services), China (teaching graduate students on western post-acute services and training on western inpatient rehabilitation); volunteering with an orphanage in Bolivia; teaching on outpatient surgery (National Health Services, England); Home Health (European Health Conference, Spain); presentations on Chinese Health in a Poster Session and a Free Theme Session at the 36th World Hospital Congress (Brazil); and study projects in Italy, Cuba, and Canada.
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