Senior Policy Analyst, Post-Acute Care, Value-Based Purchasing

Centers for Clinical Standards and Quality

Alex is a Senior Policy Analyst working in Post-Acute Care Value-Based Purchasing at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He provided analytic and operation support for the development and implementation of multiple CMMI models including the Home Health Value Based Purchasing Model (HHVBP)and Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM). He also served as the Deputy Director of the Division of Technical Model Support for the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), supporting the development and implementation of CMMI payment models. 

Program Coordinator, Expanded HHVBP Model Centers for Clinical Standards and Quality

Marcie O’Reilly joined CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in 2014. She came to CMMI with 25 years of healthcare provider experience including acute care, home infusion, and post-acute care.  Marcie participated in the design of the original Home Health Value-Based Purchasing Model and then led the initial implementation of the original model. Before that, she was on the design and implementation teams for the Medicare Care Choices Model. Currently she leads implementation of the expanded HHVBP Model as the Program Coordinator.

Home Health Quality Reporting Program Coordinator

OASIS Coordinator

Centers for Clinical Standards and Quality

Joan Proctor has been the Home Health Quality Reporting Program Coordinator since 2015 and is now also serving as the OASIS coordinator.  Joan has been with CMS since 1989 with an extensive background in fee for service home health payment policy and quality.  Joan has a Master of Science in Health Care Administration and has served in many areas of CMS including claims processing, payment policy, demonstrations and quality reporting.

Nurse Consultant

Centers for Clinical Standards & Quality

Debra is a Nurse Consultant working in the Information Systems Group (ISG) in the Centers for Clinical Standards & Quality (CCSQ). Debra began her career working as a staff nurse and as the Assistant Director of Nursing in a Skilled Nursing Facility.  Debra later worked as Federal Contractor for 18 years supporting multiple facets of the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES) legacy system, including support of the five Post-Acute Care (PAC) Assessment Submission and Processing (ASAP) systems, the CASPER Reporting application and patient assessment and survey and certification reporting.  Presently she serves on the Solutions Management Team (SMT) supporting all aspects of reporting related to patient assessment and survey and certification data for the transition of the QIES legacy system to the new internet Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (iQIES) system.

PT MHS COS-C

Linda is a physical therapist with a Masters in Health Sciences. She has worked in the home health industry since 1988, is a nationally recognized expert on OASIS, the Hospice Item Set and quality measurement and improvement. She also serves the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors, assisting in home health and hospice quality measures development, data set refinement, and maintenance and updating of Guidance Manuals and other key provider education resources for the Hospice Item Set and OASIS. She provides oversight and subject matter expertise to manage contracts for CMS’s Home Health Quality Reporting Program, CMS’s Hospice Quality Reporting Program, and the CMS Home Health Value Based Purchasing Technical Assistance Contract. She served as the President and a Founding Member of the OASIS Certificate and Competency Board (OCCB), and continues to oversee the COS-C Exam as Chair of the Exam Review Task Force. Linda is President and Founder of OASIS Answers, Inc.

Wendy K. Anemaet, PT DPT PhD GCS CWS GTC COS-C

Megan Bernier, MSPT COS-C

Marian Essey, RN BSN COS-C

Lori Marmon, PT MBA COS-C

Amy Mayer-Barger, RN BS COS-C

Kerry Termine, DPT BCHH-C COS-C