Home Health Agency Analytics Information
Founded in 2015 by Cordt Kassner, Warren Hebert, and Duane Blackwell, Home Health Analytics is an information-sharing research organization whose mission is to improve home health utilization and access to quality home-based care through analysis of Medicare and other national datasets.
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Cordt T. Kassner, PhD
CEO
Dr. Cordt Kassner is a nationally trusted hospice and end-of-life healthcare analyst who founded Hospice Analytics in 2008 to advance integrity, transparency, and clarity in hospice and palliative care data. Home Health Analytics was added in 2013. In 2023, he launched Hospice & Palliative Care Today, a daily curated news resource designed to strengthen shared understanding across the serious-illness community. He currently serves as CEO of Hospice Analytics; Publisher of Hospice & Palliative Care Today; Data Analyst for the Louisiana–Mississippi Hospice & Palliative Care Organization; Scientist with the MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care (including work with colleagues at Columbia University and Rand Corporation); and Vice President of Data Science & Research at 1520ai. He serves on the Boards of the Hospice & Palliative Care Network of Maryland, Pikes Peak Hospice & Palliative Care, and 1520ai.
Cordt earned degrees in Social Work (BS, Illinois State University), Counseling (MA, Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary), and Health & Behavioral Sciences (PhD, University of Colorado Denver). He is currently enrolled in the Colorado School of Public Health’s Graduate Certificate in Applied Biostatistics. His background includes serving as CEO of the Colorado Center for Hospice & Palliative Care (now the Home Care & Hospice Association of Colorado); holding clinical, research, and ethics leadership roles at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; founding the Colorado Healthcare Ethics Forum; and serving as Chair Emeritus of the Community Health Accreditation Partner (CHAP) Board of Directors. Across more than 30 years, Cordt has earned a reputation as a trusted translator between administrators, clinicians, policymakers, and researchers - helping each group make sense of complex data to improve care.
He has served on three Medicare Hospice Quality Technical Expert Panels; taught on the faculty of the University of Colorado since 1992 and at Duke University since 2012; volunteered with hospice; and founded the nonprofit Center for Healthcare Analytics to support Colorado’s COVID-19 response.
Cordt can be reached directly by phone 719-209-1237 and email CKassner@HospiceAnalytics.com.