A community-based palliative care and hospice case manager works on a unique case that highlights the rewarding contributions she can make for patients and their families.
Interventions to reduce length of stay for high-risk, medically complex, and otherwise vulnerable patients are falling short, according to a technical brief prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Transcatheter arterial septostomy and transcatheter intracardiac shunt procedures are used to treat congenital cardiac diseases that restrict blood flow and atrial communication. Review documentation requirements and CPT coding for these minimally invasive surgeries.
A case manager learns that a soon-to-be discharged patient’s electricity has been turned off for nonpayment and makes arrangements to have the bill paid and power restored. While this is clearly important to the patient’s health, it is also an example of how case managers may be unintentionally violating the law.
