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Case Management Weekly is a free e-mail newsletter that offers news, resources, and Q&As to help case managers from all settings find ways to enhance quality and reduce legal and compliance risks.

September 3, 2008   (Volume 5, Issue 36)
 
CMW News: Glitch in system causes Medicare to overpay

Medicare would have saved $6.5 million in March if it had a system that could more easily react to changing drug prices, according to a report issued by the U.S. Health and Human Services Department last week.

 
CMW News: Oahu medical center files for bankruptcy
Hawaii Medical Center, LLC (HMC) had been working hard to increase its number of patients and to decrease the length of stay at its two facilities, but that wasn’t enough to satisfy its creditor, Siemens Finance.
 
CMW Tip of the Week: Take steps to change case management culture
This week’s tip, an “Ask the Expert,” is provided by Karen Zander, RN, MS, CMAC, FAAN.
 
CMW Sneak Peek: Rewiring the discharge planning process
Sutter Health Sacramento Sierra Region in California recognized there was room for improvement in the discharge planning process of its four acute care facilities. LOS was increasing, and case managers felt stressed and overwhelmed. To improve its LOS data, and to assist the overworked case managers, the organization decided to hire help by adding a support role it called “case management specialist.”
 

Other recently-published articles from Case Management Weekly:

CMW News: Hospitals receive different reimbursements for identical procedures
CMW News: Pilot study provides lessons learned for cardiac care
CMW Tip of the Week: Know when to deliver the Important Message from Medicare
CMW Sneak Peek: Transforming the elective precertification process
CMW News: AMA investigates repatriation of hospital patients
CMW News: CMS prepares to launch electronic record pilot program
CMW Tip of the week: Understand the difference between a Medicare appeal and a Medicare reopening
CMW Sneak Peek: Focus on advocacy and quality
CMW News: Survey reports physician concerns regarding never events
CMW News: Hospitals see decline in paying patients, rise in non-paying
CMW Tip of the Week: Properly document discharge plans
CMW Sneak Peek: Manage your fear of the RAC
CMW News: Palliative care programs save hospitals money
CMW News: Health insurance companies urge physicians to prescribe generic drugs
CMW Tip of the Week: Hospitalists complement case management objectives

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