Case Management Monthly

We received more than 700 responses from case management professionals from all over the country. This article focuses on how case management professionals' credentials, experience, and education  affect salary.

Even with today's tight budgets, there are ways to brighten the faces of staff members. We asked a variety of experts for their ideas. Here's what they had to say.

Facilities that feel they have a strong inpatient admission screening process but still have a high ­observation rate may need to look closely at their data.

This article focuses on how facility size, region, and metropolitan type (urban, suburban, and rural) affect case management department salaries.

A case manager dedicated to the surgical unit can help check scheduled surgical procedures against the inpatient-only list.

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.

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).

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