Case Management Monthly

Is your organization complying with the 2-midnight rule? Now is the time to conduct an internal audit and find out. If you don’t, a Medicare auditor may beat you to it.

Time is a valuable commodity, especially when it comes to your health. Unfortunately, many people have wasted hours in waiting rooms at hospitals across the country.

Improving transitions from the hospital to the home or the next level of care has become a priority for many organizations.

When it comes to preventing readmissions, the focus tends to be on adult patients with adult conditions.

If you're feeling a time crunch at work, you're not alone. Case managers are often juggling heavy case­loads and an increasing number of job responsibilities.

Nearly 25 million Americans have limited English proficiency. That's almost 9% of the population of the United States.

Although the 2014 inpatient prospective payment system final rule didn't bring too many changes to the process of discharge planning, you can and should be using the discharge plan to meet some of the updated documentation requirements.

A case manager at a meeting described how the family of a patient was pressuring her to change the patient from outpatient services to inpatient status. If she didn't help, the family pleaded, the patient would face higher costs for postacute care. The case manager bragged about how she held the line, despite the tears. However, others in the room didn't think the details of the case were as black and white as the case manager claimed. And some wondered whether "holding the line" at any cost is really what a case manager should be doing.