Relias Media - Continuing Medical Education Publishing

The trusted source for

healthcare information and

CONTINUING EDUCATION.

  • Sign In
  • Sign Out
  • MyAHC
    • Home
      • Home
      • Newsletters
      • Blogs
      • Archives
      • CME/CE Map
      • Shop
    • Emergency
      • All Products
      • Publications
      • Study Guides
      • Webinars
      • Group Sales
    • Hospital
      • All Products
      • Publications
      • Study Guides
      • Webinars
      • Group Sales
    • Clinical
      • All Products
      • Publications
      • Study Guides
      • Webinars
      • Group Sales
    • All Access
      • Subscribe Now
      • My Subscription
    • My Account
      • My Subscriptions
      • My Content
      • My Orders
      • My CME/CE
      • My Transcript
    Home » Newsletters » Hospital Case Management

    Hospital Case Management

    www.reliasmedia.com

    April 1, 2016

    View Archived Issues

    Downloads

    /ext/resources/newsletters/h/HCM/2016/04/HCM-0416-all.pdf

    You’re a valued subscriber to AHC Media’s Hospital Case Management and we wanted to remind you that the April issue is now available online.

    Help shape your next issues by taking this quick, 3-question survey! Your feedback will guide future topic selection and ensure that we keep Hospital Case Management relevant and interesting!

    Reader survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HCMreadersurvey.

    Inpatient or observation: Will the difference ever be clear?

    CMS has been trying for several years to clear up the confusion about which patients should be admitted as inpatients and which should receive observation services as outpatients, but the new rules seem to make it more difficult to understand.

    Read More

    Review patients at every entry point to ensure patient status

    The solution to getting patient status right is to have case managers in the right places to review the cases of patients who are coming into the hospital, says Beverly Cunningham, RN, MS, consultant and partner at Oklahoma-based Case Management Concepts.

    Read More

    Who’s in observation? The treatment team needs to know instantly

    Patients receiving observation services can fall through the cracks and stay in the hospital longer than necessary if there’s not a way for the treatment team to easily distinguish between them and admitted patients.

    Read More

    Ensure that patients meet criteria, documentation supports it

    If you’ve got a system for getting patient status right up front and it works, don’t change anything but make sure that the documentation is detailed and complete, advises Linda Sallee, RN, MS, CMAC, ACM, IQCI, director for Huron Healthcare with headquarters in Chicago.

    Read More

    Case management’s role in the new proposed bundled payment program

    As we have discussed in prior editions of Case Management Insider, the 2010 Affordable Care Act was a game changer for the healthcare system. The payment reforms it introduced began the process of requiring health systems to communicate across the continuum of care and to reduce and/or eliminate existing silos. This across-the-continuum integration required sharing of accountability for cost and quality of care among providers.

    Read More

    Ensure that services observation patients receive are necessary and timely

    The move by CMS to change the payment methodology for patients receiving observation services means it’s more important than ever for case managers to ensure that patients receive the services they need in a timely manner and that they receive only the care they need while they are in an acute care setting, says Amy M. Smith, RN, MSN, CCM, director of case management at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, a 421-bed academic medical center in Lebanon, NH.

    Read More

    Hospitals push back against reimbursement cuts due to Two-Midnight rule

    Hospitals across the country have filed lawsuits challenging the decision by CMS to reduce Medicare reimbursement by 0.2% to compensate for the financial effect of the Two-Midnight rule.

    Read More

    Utilization review process calls for assessing patients at every point of entry

    Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, reviews every patient at every point of access to make sure that they are placed in the correct status.

    Read More
    www.reliasmedia.com

    Hospital Case Management

    View PDF
    Hospital Case Management (Vol. 24, No. 4) - April 2016
    April 1, 2016

    Table Of Contents

    Inpatient or observation: Will the difference ever be clear?

    Review patients at every entry point to ensure patient status

    Who’s in observation? The treatment team needs to know instantly

    Ensure that patients meet criteria, documentation supports it

    Case management’s role in the new proposed bundled payment program

    Ensure that services observation patients receive are necessary and timely

    Hospitals push back against reimbursement cuts due to Two-Midnight rule

    Utilization review process calls for assessing patients at every point of entry

    Begin Test

    Buy this Issue/Course

    3-question survey

    Financial Disclosure: Managing Editor Jill Drachenberg, Associate Managing Editor Dana Spector, and Editor Mary Booth Thomas, report no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study. Nurse Planner Toni Cesta, PhD, RN, FAAN, Consulting Editor of Hospital Case Management, is a consultant with Case Management Concepts LLC.

    Shop Now: Search Products

    • Subscription Publications
    • Books & Study Guides
    • Webinars
    • Group & Site
      Licenses
    • State CME/CE
      Requirements

    Webinars And Events

    View All Events
    • Home
      • Home
      • Newsletters
      • Blogs
      • Archives
      • CME/CE Map
      • Shop
    • Emergency
      • All Products
      • Publications
      • Study Guides
      • Webinars
      • Group Sales
    • Hospital
      • All Products
      • Publications
      • Study Guides
      • Webinars
      • Group Sales
    • Clinical
      • All Products
      • Publications
      • Study Guides
      • Webinars
      • Group Sales
    • All Access
      • Subscribe Now
      • My Subscription
    • My Account
      • My Subscriptions
      • My Content
      • My Orders
      • My CME/CE
      • My Transcript
    • Help
    • Search
    • About Us
    • Sign In
    • Register
    Relias Media - Continuing Medical Education Publishing

    The trusted source for

    healthcare information and

    CONTINUING EDUCATION.

    Customer Service

    customerservice@reliasmedia.com

    U.S. and Canada: 1-800-688-2421

    International +1-404-262-5476

    Accounts Receivable

    1-800-370-9210
    ReliasMedia_AR@reliasmedia.com

    Mailing Address

    • 1010 Sync St., Suite 100
      Morrisville, NC 27560-5468
      USA

    © 2020 Relias. All rights reserved.

    Do Not Sell My Personal Information  Privacy Policy  Terms of Use  Contact Us  Reprints  Group Sales

    For DSR inquiries or complaints, please reach out to Wes Vaux, Data Privacy Officer, DPO@relias.com

    Design, CMS, Hosting & Web Development :: ePublishing