Case Management Articles by Topic: Leadership and Management
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 28, July 13, 2011
Hospitals may have a higher than expected readmission rate simply because they aren't properly...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
It appears that CMS is beginning to plan an expansion of the Readmission Payment Reduction Program.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 26, June 29, 2011
Care coordination involves many levels of intervention.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 25, June 22, 2011
In the July OPPS update, CMS made a very provider-friendly manual change to the section on counting...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 24, June 15, 2011
Allow me to share a recent experience I had with a physician group regarding clinical...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 22, June 1, 2011
Seven U.S. senators believe the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) proposed rule will not only...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 22, June 1, 2011
For models of practice that separate case management and social work, the best advice is to make...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 22, June 1, 2011
Even with today's tight budgets, there are ways to brighten the faces of staff members. We asked a...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
The Partnership for Patients aims to create new public and private working relationships that...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wants to ensure that you know what to do if...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
ED case managers play a pivotal role for patients who are indigent, undocumented illegal...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 25, 2011
Not every patient status decision is difficult. Some are quite obvious.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Kindred Healthcare’s long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals use the four “R’s to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Several states are beginning to implement Medicaid face-to-face requirements, prior to the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Nursing documentation for observation patients must reflect the assessment and reassessment of...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 19, May 11, 2011
Most facilities do not have a process to check scheduled surgical procedures against the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2011
CMS has begun to lay the foundation for the coming hospital readmission reduction program as part...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2011
An effective process for evaluating medical necessity of admission begins when a patient presents...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 18, May 4, 2011
The ACMA has received a document from CMS that answers questions that ACMA members posed to the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 17, April 27, 2011
This year’s proposed rule contains the widest variety of inpatient clarifications and...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 17, April 27, 2011
The case management department cannot improve level of care decisions without cooperation from...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 16, April 20, 2011
Providers familiar with automated claims reviews and complex claims reviews by recovery audit...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, April 20, 2011
Children with complex medical conditions and technology dependence are frequent visitors to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 16, April 20, 2011
Hospitals have no choice regarding discharge planning: Federal law requires that they have a...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2011
Hospitals can begin laying the groundwork for ACOs by developing relationships with postacute...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2011
Understanding how Medicare pays for hospital services helps discharge planners counsel patients and...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 15, April 13, 2011
The ACMA has received a document from CMS that answers questions that ACMA members posed to the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2011
Case Management Monthly is accepting submissions for its “Complex Case” and “From...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2011
CMS Director Jonathan Blum told the Face-to-Face Workgroup that CMS expects full compliance with...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2011
The number of patients who needed home health care after a hospital stay increased by nearly 70...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2011
Discharge planners are in a unique position to ensure accurate documentation of patients&rsquo...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 14, April 6, 2011
The following are the highlights from the 2011 Case Management Monthly Salary Survey.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2011
The ACMA public policy committee presented its concerns about the new face-to-face requirement to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2011
Case managers should serve as advocates as patients progress through their hospital stays. Advocacy...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 13, March 30, 2011
Case managers and social workers have an active role in helping patients and families make...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2011
Hospital units with RN staff below target levels have a higher mortality rate, according to a study...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2011
Q: What is an example of a physician's narrative of face-to-face documentation?
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 12, March 23, 2011
Facilities that hold regular interdisciplinary care coordination rounds often say such meetings...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 11, March 16, 2011
Happy Social Worker Month! The National Association of Social Workers’ theme for this...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 11, March 16, 2011
CMS has scheduled a March 21 Open Door Forum that will focus on the hospital-acquired condition...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
CMS increased the number of medical records that RAC can request in a 45-day period from hospitals...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
The American Case Management Association (ACMA) received a document from CMS that answers questions...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
Q: If a situation requires the hospital to provide the follow-up Important Message from Medicare...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 10, March 9, 2011
To relieve family members of the burden of end-of-life decisions, some patients make their wishes...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2011
CMS has instructed Medicaid agencies to develop Medicaid recovery audit contractor (RAC) programs...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2011
Recent legislation signed into law by President Obama allows states to opt out of certain...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2011
Case management involvement in preadmission utilization review is essential.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 9, March 2, 2011
Observation services are a specific set of services provided to a patient while the physician...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2011
CMS’ rules for properly applying condition code 44 are hard enough to understand, but when it...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2011
This issue of Case Management Monthly features articles about counting billable observation hours...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2011
CMS reiterated in SE1037 that inpatient screening tools may assist facilities in making patient...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2011
CMS has announced its "esMD" (electronic submission of medical documentation) program...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2011
Q: A patient receives observation services following an emergency department (ED) stay, but the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, February 23, 2011
Facilities that use condition code 44 often can take that as a sign that they have a poor inpatient...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2011
Discharges occur; assessing patients for discharge needs and communicating with the physician team...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2011
Between January 2005 and June 2010, more than 200 hospital patients died because nurses did not...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2011
Q: Should discharge planners know the average LOS for specific MS-DRGs?
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 7, February 16, 2011
As patient advocates, case managers often need to question physician decisions that do not follow...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 6, February 9, 2011
Answering to the following philosophical questions influence the type of model developed and FTE...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
Several hospitals have taken advantage of an online preregistration and check-in service that...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
Discharge planners should use professional judgment when deciding whether to share medical or...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 2, 2011
There are specific MS-DRGs, called transfer DRGs, that can trigger certain transfer rules that...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2011
If you are not communicating as a team, you will not be successful in decreasing LOS. And in the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2011
“Acute Care Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System” is now available in print...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2011
ED case manager should try, with the patient’s help, to call family, friends, or neighbors...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 4, January 26, 2011
Methodist South Hospital in Memphis, TN, began using the SBAR tool to meet two basic needs...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2011
CMS published a proposed rule to provide value-based incentive payments to those acute care...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2011
Caregivers help patients transition from hospitals in several ways, including, but not limited to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 3, January 19, 2011
Families often have to make difficult decisions when a loved one is in the ICU, and they rely on...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 2, January 12, 2011
Case management’s many ties to the organization’s financial status make establishing...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 1, January 5, 2011
The Community-Based Care Transitions Program demonstration project will fund efforts to improve...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 1, January 5, 2011
Gerald is a 47-year-old male with a history of drug abuse and suicide attempts. He also presents to...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2011
This issue of Case Management Monthly features articles on patient choice, observation services...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2011
Medicare guidelines state that patients must be given a choice when it comes to their discharge...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2011
In an effort to enhance outcomes and standardize practice in pediatric patients, Children’s...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2011
Bed flow coordinators and case managers must work together to ensure proper patient throughput.
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2011
Gerald is a 47-year-old male with a history of drug abuse and suicide attempts. He also presents to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 51, December 22, 2010
Proper assignment of discharge codes can make a big difference in a hospital’s reimbursement...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 51, December 22, 2010
A significant gap in services for mental health patients has led to emergency department (ED...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 51, December 22, 2010
The success of any emergency department case management program includes easy around-the-clock...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 51, December 22, 2010
Finding a common tool that organizes the discharge process into a framework may provide for a more...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 50, December 15, 2010
Telemedicine technology can address staffing shortages in the intensive care unit (ICU), while...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 49, December 8, 2010
Jackie Birmingham has found no evidence that Medicare requires a specific number of discharge...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 12, December 1, 2010
Inside:
Strengthen postacute relationships to prepare for healthcare reform
Handling IV...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 12, December 1, 2010
One of the more talked-about initiatives in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 48, December 1, 2010
The concept of medical necessity takes on new meaning and significance when you consider the recent...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 48, December 1, 2010
CMS wants comments from physicians and other healthcare providers as it develops a proposed rule...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 48, December 1, 2010
Tracking use of services by Medicare beneficiaries is a complex process, but the Fiscal...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 48, December 1, 2010
The rules for making proper level-of-care decisions are lengthy and confusing, which makes the role...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 46, November 17, 2010
The Revenue Cycle Institute asked Kimberly Anderwood Hoy, Esq., about Recovery Audit...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 45, November 10, 2010
In 2008, one out of every ten hospital stays was potentially preventable, according to a report...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 43, November 10, 2010
The initial utilization review (UR) lays the groundwork necessary to maximize the approval of...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 43, October 27, 2010
Community hospital CEOs and C-suite executives consider case management the second most important...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 43, October 27, 2010
In some situations, only one provider may be capable of meeting a patient’s clinical...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 43, October 27, 2010
Over the years, case management has evolved as it has continually responded to ongoing changes in...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
To begin to think about separating the UR function from the case management role, you must question...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 10, October 1, 2010
Several case managers have recently received denial letters from their regions’ Medicare...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 38, September 22, 2010
CMS issued a transmittal that explicitly states providers may not use condition code 44 to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 38, September 22, 2010
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote America’s...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 36, September 8, 2010
Several providers suggested CMS abolish observation services during an August 24 CMS listening...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 36, September 8, 2010
Private care managers help geriatric patients who have complex care needs such as coordination...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed modifications to the HIPAA Privacy...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Many of us dream of the day when our department achieves its targeted LOS; however, LOS perfection...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
The case management department at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) developed a tool...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 9, September 1, 2010
Hospital executives frequently use LOS to measure how well a case management staff performs, but...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 35, September 1, 2010
Ongoing communication and collaboration between physicians, nurses, and case managers is essential...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 35, September 1, 2010
To begin to think about separating the UR function from the case management role, you must question...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 34, August 25, 2010
The issue of readmissions isn’t new, but the attention it’s receiving is. With new...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 34, August 25, 2010
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra announced...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 34, August 25, 2010
Hospital executives frequently use LOS to measure how well a case management staff performs, but...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 33, August 18, 2010
Hospitals that admit patients for services that should have been provided during an earlier...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 33, August 18, 2010
CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc., of Fairfax, VA, the Region B recovery audit contractor (RAC...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 33, August 18, 2010
Consider these tips when working with patients who have limited health literacy
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
Case managers can join the various industry leaders that have used the Lean process to reduce waste...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 31, August 4, 2010
Case management departments should discuss reports that address the following topics at staff...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic suggest that 30-day readmissions are not an accurate...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
Both discharge planning and transitional planning apply a process whereby a systematic approach...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 29, July 21, 2010
At Cabell Huntington (WV) Hospital (CHH), case managers are more than just chart reviewers, they...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 28, July 14, 2010
I was privileged to be a part of the American Case Management Association’s (ACMA) Advocacy...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 28, July 14, 2010
Recruitment, retention, and turnover are challenging in any profession. Case management is no...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 27, July 7, 2010
A recent CMS report indicates that providers have been winning more appeals since the last update.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 27, July 7, 2010
In most facilities, the patient access staff is in charge of the ABN process. However, most patient...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
The appeal process is much more complex than conducting a clinical review for an insurance company...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
In March, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law. Although...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Unlike politicians who only give lip service to working with rivals, BryanLGH and Saint Elizabeth...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
In an environment of limited resources, ensuring care for patients post-discharge can challenge any...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 24, June 16, 2010
Patient or family inconvenience can be a significant factor affecting length of stay, especially...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 22, June 2, 2010
Documentation by the medical staff is a pillar of reimbursement success.
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
The American Case Management Association (ACMA) Public Policy Committee is in communication with...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Case managers can do their part to make sure their hospital's case-mix index is as high as possible.
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Case managers at Jennie Edmundson use an assessment tool to identify patients that are at a...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Denial prevention begins by establishing channels that lead to a systematic review of each...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 26, 2010
Healthcare reform will increase the number of nursing facility referrals. Hospitals must improve...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 26, 2010
Before creating and implementing the Discharge Planning for Social Work Referral tool, Jennie...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 18, May 5, 2010
A former UCLA Healthcare System employee will serve four months in prison for snooping at...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Inside:
The results are in: 2010 case management salary survey
Identify your...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
The following are the highlights from the 2010 Case Management Monthly salary survey. We received...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Use data to identify weakness in your case management department processes and reduce revenue cycle...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
No matter whom the CDI department reports to, collaboration between case managers and CDI...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
The case manager’s main goal is coordinating care and collaborating with other members of the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
St. Luke's Health System in Boise, ID is proving that Apple’s new iPad™ isn’t...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
Q: How can we change the hospital culture to make case management easier to do day after day?
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 17, April 28, 2010
Despite the struggling economy, more than half of survey respondents (62%) reported that they...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 16, April 21, 2010
A case management presence in your ED will help physicians better understand medical necessity...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 16, April 21, 2010
UM documentation is not clinical documentation and should not be available to anyone requesting the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 14, April 7, 2010
Despite the struggling economy, more than half of survey respondents (62%) reported that they...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Inside:
ACE demonstration improves care coordination and lowers costs
How can discharge...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Experts expect the RACs to begin auditing medical necessity this summer. Case managers may be asked...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Case managers and discharge must understand patients’ perspective to make sure patients...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Untreated mental conditions can prevent patients from properly managing physical health, thus...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
Considering communication is at the heart of what all case managers do, case management leaders...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 12, March 24, 2010
Improved patient care starts with relationships. Hospital case managers and social workers must...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 12, March 24, 2010
Recognizing how this population’s mental health contributes to their physical health goes a...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
The only time a discharge planner should discourage a post-acute referral is when the selected...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 11, March 17, 2010
The advent of the DRG system gave hospitals an incentive to decrease LOS. The average LOS is two...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 9, March 3, 2010
Q: How can a hospital evaluate or asses its discharge planning process?
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 9, March 3, 2010
The handoff of patients from the hospital to another care provider is a critical transition...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Inside:
ACE demonstration improves care coordination and lowers costs
How can discharge planning...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Instead of paying for hospital and physician services separately, the ACE demonstration...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
The case manager must examine every component of the discharge process for opportunities for...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
At this juncture in the evolution of case management services, we have reached the tipping point of...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
When executing an interstate transfer, case managers must account for different Medicaid programs...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, February 24, 2010
Implementation of the proposed Stage 1 criteria for meaningful use could directly impact daily case...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 8, February 24, 2010
One of the biggest challenges of executing an interstate transfer is the cost, says Matt Boettcher...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 6, February 10, 2010
There appears to be a misconception among physicians that clinical documentation is for the benefit...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 6, February 10, 2010
CMS recently answered new condition code 44 questions on its FAQ Web site. The CMS answers confirm...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 6, February 10, 2010
Instead of paying for hospital and physician services separately, the ACE demonstration program...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 3, 2010
Poor communication between physicians who treat physical issues and providers who treat mental...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 3, 2010
Consider the following when deciding whether to admit a patient:
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 3, 2010
Case managers at Greenville Hosptial System needed a better system for communicating with staff...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The daily flash rounds meeting at Greenville Hospital System is a quick, informal meeting that...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Inside:
Your condition code 44 questions answered
Milliman or InterQual: Which product is right...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 4, January 27, 2010
It’s very likely that at one time or another, every person is asked one of the following...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine says improving publicly reported...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
Hospital workers participating in an Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) survey say the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 3, January 20, 2010
What should I do in the following situation? A patient no longer requires hospital level of care...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
By 2019, 24 million currently uninsured individuals will have healthcare coverage if the House...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 2, January 13, 2010
Medicare has not established a target date for any changes in payment methodology, but some of the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
Hospital organizations need to realize and act upon the fact that discharge planning begins at the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
In most hospitals, the physician advisor should be available every day, at least on an on-call...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 1, January 6, 2010
Results of a nine-month HCPro transition-of-care study, available on CaseManagementMentor.com...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Results of a nine-month HCPro transition of care study illustrate the efforts of hospitals and SNFs...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Facilities that accept direct admissions for specialized services should consider creating a...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
Inside:
RapidView provides real-time snapshots of facility
Study shows barriers to reducing...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 49, December 9, 2009
Enrollment in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs increased 3.5% in 2009; however, nearly...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Travel nursing is ideal for healthcare professionals who want to explore the country while...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
Inside:
Clearing up condition code 44 confusion
What are some innovative ways case managers can...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 30, November 18, 2009
Change is on the horizon. CMS currently is considering provisions that will promote the efficient...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
Inside:
Clearing up condition code 44 confusion
What are some innovative ways case managers can...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Answers to your questions about dealing with undocumented patients
Process tips from your peers...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Inside: One facility re-develops an assessment tool to ensure documentation What are the benefits...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) in Charlotte, NC, didn’t have a big problem with turnover...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 8, August 1, 2009
Expediting discharges with a case manager-nurse practitioner model
How CMS’ 9th Scope of...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 7, July 12, 2009
Inside:
Virtual patient advocate could reduce readmissions
Case managers intervene to aid...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
There are several reasons that some patients end up staying in the hospital for long amounts of...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
Inside:
Observation status: Tips for accurate care determination
Partner with hospitalists to...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 21, May 27, 2009
Take advantage of two free tools—courtesy of the Association of Clinical Documentation...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
This week’s tip comes from Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN.
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
A comprehensive understanding of hospital denials and their root causes will not only avoid...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
When case management caseloads become unmanageable, mistakes inevitably occur.
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
Case Management Monthly, an 8-page monthly newsletter, is a one-of-a-kind training, support, and...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
This week’s tip comes from Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN.
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 5, February 4, 2009
This week’s tip, an Ask the Expert, was submitted by a Case Management Weekly reader and...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 2, February 1, 2009
Case management is an invaluable part of a hospital, but how is it recognized by the...
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Case Management Weekly, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
This week’s tip is provided by Deborah K. Hale, CCS.
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
As facilitators and coordinators of patient care services, case managers are in the best position...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
If you are not taking advantage of the expertise your physician advisor (PA) can offer to your case...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
If your case management program is like most, it focuses mainly on utilization review and discharge...
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Case Management Monthly, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
Hospitalists, who specialize in the management of hospitalized patients, take over for PCPs when...
