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Social work services provide an important link between ambulatory and inpatient providers and health care clients. Social workers assist patients in finding available and appropriate resources, help with financial issues, arrange transportation for patients, and conduct many more enabling tasks.
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Under expanded safe harbors to anti-kickback statutes, physicians are now allowed to accept donations of electronic prescribing software, electronic health records software, and training services from hospitals and health plans, says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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When Lyn Clark, RN, BSN, became case management director at Lake Granbury Medical Center in Granbury, TX, she found herself with a staff working with no direction and who had very little knowledge about the role of case management in the hospital setting.
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Data from Premier Inc.'s pay-for-performance demonstration project with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) indicate that improving the care of pneumonia and heart bypass patients alone can save as much as $1 billion a year, as well as thousands of lives.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights has issued a decision tool for disclosures for emergency preparedness under HIPAA.
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For the first time in several years, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations has revised the look-alike/sound-alike drug list.
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It is pointless being really busy improving your case management services if you don't also make sure that the changes being made are as effective as they could be. You also need to be sure that you are making the right changes. This is where evaluation becomes important.
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B. K. Kizziar calls it case management training by the "Poof!" method. "One day, you're a nurse on the floor. The next day, you're in the case management department and, within a week, Poof! You're a case manager.
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A process that tracks delays in service at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD, has improved patient flow by ensuring that tests and procedures occur in a timely manner.
