News & Analysis

May 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

2011 Coder Productivity Survey

May 1, 2011
HIM Briefings

Even with today's tight budgets, there are still ways you can brighten the faces of your staff members. We asked the MRB advisory board members for their best ideas and tried-and-true tactics. Here's what they had to say.

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

Efforts to educate medical staff members on Medicare or other payer policies can be like herding cats. However, it is necessary to ensure compliance. The case management department cannot improve level of care decisions without cooperation from medical staff members.

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

Jackie Birmingham, RN, MS, CMAC, and Diane E. Holland, RN, PhD, describe two essential discharge planning processes.

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

The ACMA has received a document from CMS that answers questions that ACMA members posed to the agency about delivering the Important Message from Medicare (IM).

May 1, 2011
Case Management Monthly

We received more than 700 responses to the 2011 Case Management Monthly Salary Surveyfrom RN case managers (51%), case ­management ­directors (23%), case management managers/­supervisors (16%), and social work (SW) case managers from all over the country.

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