{"title":"Community partnerships keep patients safe after discharge.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 10","pages":"137-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34222463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CASE MANAGEMENT INSIDER. The Top 10 Mistakes You May Be Making In Your Case Management Department! Part 4.","authors":"Toni Cesta","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have now completed our review of the top 10 mistakes you may be making in your case management department. I've included tips and strategies for correcting these mistakes if you are facing them in your organization. If you follow these suggestions, you will help to keep your case management practice and your department on track and moving forward!</p>","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 10","pages":"131-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34222461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adequate CM staff is vital as reimbursement models change.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 9","pages":"114, 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33954304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New payment models require a shift in thinking.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 9","pages":"112-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33954303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Get ready: Bundled payments are in your future.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') mandatory bundled payment pilot project makes clear that the agency intends to reform Medicare reimbursement. Hospitals in 75 geographic areas are required to participate in a five-year pilot project that puts them at risk for the cost of hip and knee replacements from the time of surgery until 90 days after discharge. Already, more than 6,500 providers are participating in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement project, a voluntary program where participants can choose from 48 clinical episodes and four models. Even if they won't be part of a bundled payments arrangement, case managers need to shift their thinking to prepare for the future of reimbursement by developing close working relationships with post-acute providers, knowing the services and quality delivered by post-acute providers, and being aware of the costs for the entire episode of care. Case managers will not be able to handle all the responsibilities necessary in a bundled payment arrangement if they have large caseloads.</p>","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 9","pages":"109-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33954302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CMS proposes to OK one-midnight inpatient stays.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed that stays shorter than two midnights be reimbursed as inpatient stays if the documentation in the medical record supports it. CMS made the proposal in the Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule for 2016 and left the policy unchanged for stays of two midnights or longer. CMS also announced that the two Beneficiary and Family Centered Care Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs), Livanta and KEPRO, will take over the responsibility of Probe and Educate and will review cases for medical necessity when patient stays are one midnight or less, referring hospitals with high denial rates to the Recovery Auditors. Case managers should continue to assist physicians in determining patient status and to make sure that the documentation is complete, accurate, and specifies the severity of illness.</p>","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 9","pages":"121-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34020937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"California staffing law reduces occ injuries; nurses in other states fighting for similar laws.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 8","pages":"106-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34301969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educate observation patients on what \"observation\" means to them.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 8","pages":"102-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34301966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beef up your documentation reviews to ensure reimbursement is appropriate.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 8","pages":"101-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34301965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hospital revamped admission process to comply with two-midnight rule.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A multidisciplinary team at Northwestern Lake Forest (IL) Hospital developed a way to change the admissions process to comply with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') two-midnight rule. The team specified that patient status should be based on expected length of stay, severity of illness, intensity of expected services, and risks for the patient and had the information integrated into the medical record as a reminder for physicians. Case managers screen all patients for medical necessity before registration and recommend that patients who do not meet inpatient criteria receive observation services. The case management department gives patients receiving observation services a letter explaining their status, potential copays, and out-of-pocket expenses.</p>","PeriodicalId":79972,"journal":{"name":"Hospital case management : the monthly update on hospital-based care planning and critical paths","volume":"23 8","pages":"103-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34301967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}