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Your questions: expert answers

Case Management Weekly, November 13, 2007

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In this issue of Case Management Weekly, we're offering you a quick insight from Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN, on the role of physician advisors. Zander was answering questions from case managers during the recent audioconference, Transforming Case Management Models: How to connect the boardroom to the bedside.

"Depending on the complexity of the organization, it can be a part-time role, given other aspects of that person's practice. A physician advisor definitely has to be respected by other physicians, and if they do have a practice besides physician advisor, they shouldn't be at the mercy of referrals from other physicians to them.

"But whether they're part-time for eight-hours or half time, or whatever, I think the role has to really well defined, so we need to say things like 'we want you to spend two hours doing this and one hour a week doing complex care rounds', so it's not the amount of time, but how the time is organized."

Source: You can read the full Q&A section in the forthcoming December issue of Case Management Monthly or listen again to the full audioconference at the HCMarketplace

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