2023 Hospital @ Home Leadership Summit Speaker Bio
Lisa Tripp, JD, Vice President of Government Affairs, Professor Emeritus John Marshall Law School, Medically Home
Lisa Tripp is Vice President of Government Affairs for Medically Home and Professor Emeritus at John Marshall Law School, in Atlanta Georgia. Ms. Tripp also served as a Technical Director at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) until April 2021, and in that role was a member of the CMS/CDC COVID-19 Task Force. In her role on the task force, she co-led the development and implementation of the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver and the broader hospital without walls waivers. She also coordinated the CDC/CMS Strike Force efforts to protect nursing home residents impacted by large COVID-19 outbreaks.
Prior to joining CMS, Ms. Tripp practiced health care law for a private law firm and was a litigating attorney for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As an HHS attorney, Ms. Tripp focused primarily on long term care enforcement. She litigated many cases involving physical and sexual abuse, elopements, falls, neglect and substandard quality of care. Ms. Tripp received her law degree, with honors, from George Washington University Law School, in Washington, D.C.
Session(s)
Track B: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 11:25am – 11:55 am
Track B:
The Regulatory Landscape: Navigating Waiver Requirements, Reporting, and Medicaid Reimbursement : The CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver brought Hospital at Home into the mainstream of health care in America. What happens at the Federal and State level now that Congress has extended the CMS Acute Hospital Care at Home Waiver through Dec. 31, 2024? This presentation will focus on the new federal legislation extending Hospital at Home, the reporting requirements in the federal legislation, regulatory challenges and opportunities at the state level and the state of Medicaid reimbursement for Hospital at Home.