When the Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) took over the role of education and enforcement for the 2-midnight rule on October 1, 2015, many anticipated that their reviews would only look at records from that date forward. But in an unpleasant turn of events, some hospitals have reported QIO records requests zeroing in on cases as far back as May 2015.
On November 16, 2015, CMS released a final rule that bundles acute-care payments for knee and hip replacement surgeries, the most common type of inpatient surgeries for Medicare beneficiaries, with some 400,000 performed in 2004.
Clinical documentation improvement specialists and case managers share a common goal but often aren't on the same page when it comes to improving documentation within the hospital.
Compliance with the 2-midnight rule can be tricky for many organizations, which has left many case managers with nagging questions about how to get it right. We got the following questions from our readers and asked two of our experts to weigh in.
A new proposed rule aimed at reducing readmission rates and improving patient care could bring big changes for case management?in some instances requiring hospitals to nearly double the number of full-time case managers they have on staff, say experts.
If you've been working in case management, you already know that your job has gotten a lot more complicated in recent years. The tasks at hand may even be more daunting if you're a department director who is responsible for complying with a host of different mandates that continue to grow by the day.
