Why Should You Attend:
In this session Ms. Cunningham will introduce the concept of bundled payments, as well as the roles of each case management department staff member in this initiative. Areas of focus will be the role of the case management leader in collaboration with other leaders, as well as the roles of the RN case manager and the social work case manager in ensuring optimal outcomes for both financial and clinical outcomes.
She will also discuss best practices for developing steps to ensure collaboration of all key stakeholder disciplines, both internal and external. Effective alignment with both physicians, physician advisor's and post-acute care providers will be reviewed. Discussed also will be case management outcomes that will positively affect the hospital’s bundled payment scorecard.
Attend this webinar to understand the bundled payments, ensuring optimal processes, auditing effectiveness and roles of the case management department’s in their impact on outcomes.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
Bundled payment history and purpose
Bundled payment elements: mandatory and optional
Case management’s role in the hospital’s bundled payment initiative
Quality metrics of bundled payments
Financial metrics of bundled payments
Challenges of bundled payments
Strategies for effective bundled payment initiatives: hospital and case management department strategies
Case management department roles
Aligning with physicians and other internal providers
Aligning with post-acute care
Bundled payment successes
In this session Ms. Cunningham will introduce the concept of bundled payments, as well as the roles of each case management department staff member in this initiative. Areas of focus will be the role of the case management leader in collaboration with other leaders, as well as the roles of the RN case manager and the social work case manager in ensuring optimal outcomes for both financial and clinical outcomes.
She will also discuss best practices for developing steps to ensure collaboration of all key stakeholder disciplines, both internal and external. Effective alignment with both physicians, physician advisor's and post-acute care providers will be reviewed. Discussed also will be case management outcomes that will positively affect the hospital’s bundled payment scorecard.
Attend this webinar to understand the bundled payments, ensuring optimal processes, auditing effectiveness and roles of the case management department’s in their impact on outcomes.
Areas Covered in the Webinar:
Bundled payment history and purpose
Bundled payment elements: mandatory and optional
Case management’s role in the hospital’s bundled payment initiative
Quality metrics of bundled payments
Financial metrics of bundled payments
Challenges of bundled payments
Strategies for effective bundled payment initiatives: hospital and case management department strategies
Case management department roles
Aligning with physicians and other internal providers
Aligning with post-acute care
Bundled payment successes
Speakers
Bev Cunningham, MS, RN, ACM is a founding partner of Case Management Concepts, LLC. She has a 25-year deep working knowledge of case management with specific expertise in denials management, patient flow and the role of the Case Manager and Social Worker in the Case Management process. Bev is also a certified case manager with the American Case Management Association. She has served as a Commissioner on the Commission for Case Management Certification and is a fellow with the Advisory Board. Bev is also the former Vice President of Resource Management at Medical City Dallas Hospital.She has co-authored a book for hospital case managers—Core Skills for Hospital Case Managers and has written the utilization management chapter in the past two editions of CMSA’s book, Core Curriculum for Case management.
