Case Management Diagnostic Tool

Whether your hospital is reimbursed from the Medicare Prospective Payment System or is designated a Critical Access Hospital, this Case Management Diagnostic Tool will help you to assess the effectiveness of your case management program and to identify direction for further improvement opportunities. This diagnostic tool is based on our in-depth knowledge of Case Management and extensive work in hospitals with challenges very similar to yours. If you need help completing this Smart Tool or have questions, please feel free (866)-371-4669.

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Do you operate a Case Management System?

Does your Case Management program begin in your Emergency Department?

Does Case Management provide input into the initial admission status assignment?

Is your Medicare Length of Stay equal to or less than 4.0 Days?

Are your Medicare discharges equal to or greater than 50% of your total discharges?

Do you have a clinical and financial Case Management Scorecard?

Do you trend Length of Stay by DRG, physician and service line?

Do you routinely place Same Day Surgery patients in Observation Status for overnight stays?

Do you have Observation Status stays that exceed 48 hours?

Are you holding patients in your ED and PACU due to a lack of bed availability?

Do you currently have daily or twice daily Bed Meetings?

Do you monitor readmissions within thirty days with the same diagnosis by MS DRG?

Is Chest Pain in your top ten Medicare MS DRGs by admission volume?

Do you operate a Case Management System?

Do you have data driven "real time" and Resource Management initiatives in place to target key patient populations?

Does your Case Management Department track and quantify Avoidable Days and Delays?

Are denials, both inpatient and outpatient, tracked in your hospital?

Have you implemented a Clinical Documenation Specialist role in the past 12 months?

Do your Discharge Planning/Interdisciplinary Care Conferences include a Clinical Documentation Specialist and Resource Management component?

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