Angela Huff, RN
Senior Manager, Forvis Mazars, Springfield, MO
                                                             

With over 35 years of experience as a registered nurse, Angela has spent nearly 25 years in executive leadership in home health and hospice operations as well as software development in the post-acute space. In addition, she has global experience in the community care space that includes the United Kingdom, Finland, Canada, and Australia. Angela performs operations improvement assessments and compliance-focused reviews of home health and hospice documentation, including audits and appeals related to the OIG and program integrity contractors and compliance risk assessments related to mergers and acquisitions.

She is actively involved in the educational and advocacy activities of The Alliance and is a member of the HHFMA Workgroup, Innovation, Education and Women in Leadership Committees. Angela has been a presenter for The National Alliance for Care at Home, as well as other industry national and state organizations and has been published in industry publications. Before entering the post-acute industry, she was a Certified Critical Care Registered Nurse and a Certified Registered Nurse Infusionist.

Amanda Thomas
Director, Forvis Mazars, Springfield, MO

Amanda is a member of the Healthcare Practice, providing an array of consulting services for home care and hospice organizations nationwide with more than 13 years of experience. She manages Forvis Mazars’ Southern Missouri home care and hospice reimbursement team, which prepares more than 400 home care and hospice cost reports annually. Amanda also helps manage the home care and hospice operations of the healthcare billing and revenue cycle team, which manages the billing and revenue cycle operations for more than 100 home care, hospice, and senior living organizations throughout the nation. 

She also provides employee benefit plan audits of defined contribution employee benefit plans, such as 403(b) and 401(k) plans, and has experience with employee stock ownership plans and healthcare plan audits. Prior to focusing on consulting services for home care and hospice providers, Amanda performed financial statement audits and reviews for home care, hospice, senior living, continuous care retirement communities, and other healthcare providers. 

Amanda is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and Missouri Society of CPAs. She is a member of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) and NAHC’’s Home Care & Hospice Financial Managers Association (HHFMA). She serves on the Young Professionals, Payment and Reimbursement, and Women in Leadership committees of HHFMA. She also served for two years as the treasurer of Diaper Bank of the Ozarks, a local nonprofit. 

She is a 2009 cum laude graduate of Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, with a B.S. degree in accounting.