Agenda

Arrowfly is proud to honor the Future Leaders Awards Class of 2026. This program celebrates high-performing, forward-thinking professionals who are driving innovation and shaping the future of the home health & home care and home medical equipment (HME) industries.

Speed matters when evaluating home health and hospice referrals, but faster decisions cannot come at the expense of accuracy or consistency. AI is creating new opportunities for teams to modernize their referral screening process. See how exacare ai’s intake screener evaluates each referral for payer, geographic, and clinical fit, helping reduce manual work, improve consistency, and accelerate referral decisions.

New leadership is reshaping the trajectory of major home-based care organizations at a pivotal moment for the industry. Hear from recently appointed CEOs about their early priorities, where they are recalibrating strategy and how they are balancing growth ambitions with margin pressure, workforce constraints and evolving payment dynamics. Panelists will share what they are changing, what they are preserving and how they are positioning their organizations for the years ahead.

This session brings together CEOs from the industry’s most innovative organizations to discuss how they are navigating critical inflection points to scale their operations. Attendees will learn how these leaders are balancing immediate operational demands with long-term bets to stay ahead of the curve in 2026 and beyond.

In this unfiltered executive briefing, three of the industry’s most prominent leaders move past the talking points to provide a candid look at the operational, financial and strategic realities of the HME market.

As the CMS moratoria reshape the growth landscape in home health, operators and investors are rethinking how compliance, documentation integrity and audit readiness impact expansion. This fireside-style discussion explores how AI-driven systems are helping organizations reduce risk, strengthen oversight and build a more defensible foundation for growth—along with what “audit-ready” actually looks like in practice.

Demand for home-based care is rising, but growth increasingly depends on a more urgent constraint: clinical capacity.  For many home health and hospice organizations, the challenge is not simply attracting more patients. It is ensuring clinicians have the time, support, and confidence to accept more patients, deliver high-quality care, and complete increasingly complex documentation without adding administrative burden.  AI has the potential to return meaningful time to clinicians, but faster note generation alone is not enough. Poorly integrated AI can shift work downstream, increase review burden, and raise serious questionsabout documentation integrity, clinical judgment, compliance, and accountability.  In this panel discussion, leaders from Homecare Homebase and StenoHealth will explore what it takes to move beyond AI scribing toward responsible, workflow-native intelligence designed for the realities of home-based care.

Romi Gubes’s bold perspective on what real intelligence actually looks like as good enough has no place in care.

As home-based care continues to evolve, healthcare leaders are navigating increasing regulatory oversight, workforce challenges, technological innovation, and changing patient expectations. This executive panel brings together three complementary perspectives to discuss how organizations can successfully prepare for the future while remaining focused on quality, operational excellence, and compassionate patient care. Rather than focusing solely on regulations or policy updates, this discussion explores how leadership, organizational readiness, and strategic decision-making can position providers for long-term success in an increasingly complex healthcare environment. Attendees will leave with practical insights, actionable leadership strategies, and a broader understanding of the forces shaping the future of home-based care.

Healthcare organizations are sitting on valuable insights that often go unnoticed. In this session, learn how healthcare leaders are leveraging referral trends, market intelligence and competitive insights to uncover new growth opportunities. Discover how forward-thinking organizations are transforming complex data into actionable strategies that identify emerging trends, strengthen market position and support faster, more confident decision-making. Attendees will leave with practical ideas for turning information into a sustainable competitive advantage.

Refuel and recharge with home health and HME leaders by enjoying lunch, where meaningful introductions and collaborative conversations are always on the menu.

HHCN+ members are invited to join a collaborative discussion on the evolving landscape of the payer-provider relationship over an exclusive networking lunch.

In this session, we'll examine how enforcement and regulatory actions and trends are affecting home health and home care providers and the HME sector. A mix of home-based care and HME leaders will break down the real-world impact of the nationwide Medicare home health moratorium, CMS’s fraud, waste and abuse initiatives, and providers' approach to compliance in 2026 – and what all of it means for growth going forward.

Improving care and growing your care business usually means hiring more caregivers. This session shows how predictive, passive monitoring can help break that link, improving the care seniors receive while growing margin faster than payroll. Drawing on results from live deployments, we will show how simple, continuous, non-intrusive monitoring delivers valuable outcomes. Fewer hospitalizations, fewer serious infections and better informed caregivers enable seniors to live safely at home two years longer than they otherwise could. The payoff for providers is threefold: a genuine market differentiator backed by real results, higher-margin service lines that don't depend on adding staff, and longer, stickier client relationships.

Growth in home health and hospice used to mean adding staff at the same rate you added patients. This panel brings together operators who've scaled multi-site platforms through PE ownership, M&A, and multi-line expansion to talk about what's actually changing that math, where AI is genuinely moving the needle on both margin and quality of care, and what it takes to grow without losing the clinical continuity that got them here.

AI adoption in home-based care will rise or fall based on one factor: whether clinicians trust it enough to use it. In this session, BAYADA and Mosai will explore what it really takes to move adoption forward, from introducing new tools and addressing resistance to showing clinicians how technology can support, not replace, their judgment. Together, the panel will examine how organizations can listen to clinician concerns, build credibility through practical use cases, and create implementation strategies that feel grounded in the realities of care delivery. The conversation will focus not just on the technology itself, but on the human change management required to make innovation stick.

Take a breather between sessions to mingle with fellow attendees, exchange ideas, and build relationships with professionals shaping the future of home health and HME.

U.S. healthcare is reaching an inflection point: Costs are rising, the population is aging and chronic disease is reshaping what patients need from the system. In this special fireside chat, longtime healthcare executive and innovator Paul Kusserow will explore the forces accelerating change — and the path toward lower spend, better outcomes and more effective care in the home and community.

After years of shifting valuations and capital constraints, the home-based care dealmaking environment is entering a complex new chapter. This high-level briefing brings together leading investors and strategic operators to provide a definitive "state of the union" on the M&A landscape. From the resurgence of institutional capital and evolving valuation multiples to the impact of regulatory headwinds on underwriting, this session will break down where the "smart money" is moving, who is aggressively buying, and what it takes to execute a successful transaction in today’s market.

Join us for FUTURE After Dark, an exclusive and private live music experience on the first night of FUTURE. We are taking over the legendary Antone's Nightclub for a night of incredible music and great company. This is a private event specifically for our guests. Where: Antone's Nightclub.

Three perspectives, one goal: helping home care owners understand what really happens in an M&A transaction. This panel brings together a leading sell-side advisor, acquirer, and attorney to discuss what drives valuation, common deal pitfalls, and how to prepare a business for a successful sale. It's a candid, practical look at the sale process from the people who live it every day.

Many organizations have tested new technologies, but far fewer have successfully scaled them across the business. In this session, providers leaders will walk through technologies that have moved beyond the pilot stage and are delivering measurable value. Panelists will discuss how they identified the problem, evaluated solutions, built internal buy-in, measured ROI and expanded adoption. The conversation will highlight lessons around implementation, workflow integration and the realities of scaling technology in the home.

With Medicare Advantage now dominating the market, HME providers are struggling against low rates and rising claim denials. This session offers tactical advice on negotiating better contracts and fixing internal workflows to protect your bottom line from payer pressure.

Traditional referral relationships are evolving into deeper partnerships as health systems, payviders and home-based care providers work more closely to manage patient outcomes and total cost of care. As value-based arrangements gain traction and care increasingly shifts into the home, providers face new opportunities — and new pressures — to align with larger healthcare organizations. This session will explore how referral patterns, partnership models and growth strategies are changing, what health systems and payviders are looking for in home-based care partners and how providers can strengthen key relationships while maintaining operational independence and financial sustainability.

The HME industry is evolving beyond its traditional business models as providers explore new products, services and care delivery approaches to drive growth. In this forward-looking discussion, industry leaders will share the innovations they're investing in, the emerging opportunities they're most excited about and how they're thinking about the future of HME in an increasingly competitive and complex market.

A candid, audience-driven conversation to close out FUTURE. Industry leaders react in real time to attendee questions and distill the biggest takeaways from the conference – what’s noise, what’s real and what operators should actually do next.