Community Case Management
RSSArticles
-
Unit-based Case Management Model Works Best for Organization
Once upon a time, a hospital’s case manager performed all case management responsibilities and utilization review work. Social workers performed a lot of the discharge planning. All worked fairly well, but something was missing: Case managers were limited in their ability to care for patients.
-
Q&A With the Nurse Who Wrote the Book on Case Management
Case Management Advisor asked Catherine M. Mullahy, RN, CCM, president of Mullahy & Associates of Huntington, NY, and author of The Case Manager’s Handbook, Sixth Edition, published in June 2016, to discuss case management tools and strategies.
-
Study Offers Puzzle Piece to Paying for Integrated Care
Integrating mental health into primary care practice settings needs both research and a payment structure that works.
-
Risk Stratification Can Help in Population Health Environment
Risk-stratified care management can help bridge the distance between providing effective care and finding efficient ways to do so.
-
Bundled Approach to Handoff Communication Delivers Significant Safety Dividends
With an estimated 80% of the most serious medical errors linked to communication failures, handoff processes are a rich target for improvement. There are numerous tools designed to help providers remember to convey the most important information when transitioning a patient to another provider, but one approach in particular has demonstrated in multiple studies that it can reduce medical errors and preventable adverse events substantially.
-
Organization Expands Case Management for North Carolina Sickle Cell Population
North Carolina patients with sickle cell disease are a small population that experiences repeated and costly ED visits and hospitalizations. Community Care of North Carolina has 600 care managers statewide, who work primarily with Medicaid patients, matching them with 14 networks and care managers across the state.
-
Orthopedic Nurse Navigator Helps Surgery Patients Stay Healthy
The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement program helped the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Passavant reduce the percentage of total joint replacement patients who are discharged to a skilled nursing facility instead of home.
-
Medicare Payment Codes Related to Care Management
Starting in 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provided new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes for care management payment.
-
Designers of Collaborative Behavioral Health and Primary Care Models See Growth in Future
Recent Medicare funding for care management services, related to integrated behavioral health and primary care, has provided more incentives for healthcare organizations to use this approach.
-
Study: Readmissions More Common After Observation Stays
Patients often are readmitted to the hospital after an observation stay, according to recent research which suggests hospitals may want to target this population.