Stephanie, a home care nurse case manager, follows patients with repeated readmissions, stabilizes them in the community, and prevents the readmissions from continuing. But with record-breaking temperatures approaching, Stephanie knows that helping her patients avoid readmission will be more challenging than usual.
Every director of case management faces the challenge of remaining current in an age of information overload. For some, this information explosion may cause work fatigue and anxiety. One way to stay afloat is to focus on one thing—Medicare.
Q: Can a healthcare provider be a business associate of another provider? In other words, do providers need to have business associate agreements between one another?
This week's note from the instructor discusses a change that will be implemented in October to address issues related to device-dependent procedure edits.
Several national groups representing accountable care organizations and physicians expressed concern that CMS has delayed disbursement of the 5% advanced alternative payment model (APM) bonus.
