Hospital Case Management – February 1, 2017
February 1, 2017
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Collecting Data is a Key to Success — But You Have to Use it, Too
Hospital leadership and staff need to look at new ways of delivering care to succeed in the rapidly changing healthcare marketplace as CMS and commercial payers move toward basing reimbursement on quality.
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Track SNF, Home Health Performance, and Share Data with Patients
If you’re not monitoring length of stay and cost of care data from your post-acute providers, you could be jeopardizing your hospital’s bottom line when pay-for-performance initiatives kick in.
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Case Management Department Revamped in Response to Shift in Reimbursement
As DCH Health System in Tuscaloosa, AL, began to assume more risk for patients after discharge, the leadership redesigned the case management department to meet the new challenges.
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Some Joint Replacement Patients May Go Home the Same Day as Surgery
Joint replacement patients who meet criteria can be discharged the same day after surgery through a program at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
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When You Have a New Patient, Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Hospital case managers should create alliances with primary care providers who can share information that will help in creating a discharge plan, according to the chief executive officer of El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, AZ.
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March 8 is Deadline for Giving MOON to Patients
CMS has set March 8 as the date on which hospitals are required to give patients receiving observation services the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice.