Description

Being a vital part of a hospital, case management is an improving and promoting healthcare services. Case Management involves assessment, planning, and evaluation of options for proper care of patients. Physicians play a critical role in any hospital’s case management. Two groups of physicians affect the case management – physician advisors and hospitalists.

The physician advisors (PA) review the cases referred by case managers or other professional staff. The role of an advisor can be varied. Not every physician is an advisor or is prepared for the position of advisor. Rarely, case managers or case management leaders are ready to coordinate with physician advisors. A hospital may or may not have an internal physician advisor. If in case it doesn’t, the hospital can have an external physician advisor. The collaboration between physician advisors and case managers can positively impact the efficiency and working of any hospital.

With the evolution of a hospitalist’s position, there has been an increased collaboration of hospitalists with case managers and social workers. The role of hospitalists in case management can also be considered essential. They work with a prominent aim of decreasing the length of stay. The partnership with case managers not only ensures the decreasing length of stay but also ensures compliance with federal and state regulations.

This webinar will discuss these two roles and their effects on a hospital’s case management and efficiency in healthcare.

Learning Objectives:-

• You can identify the key roles of the physician advisor and the hospitalist.
• The speaker will talk about developing best practice strategies with key physician stakeholders to ensure optimal outcomes.
• We will emphasize on identifying opportunities for improvement at key locations throughout the hospital while collaborating with physicians.

Course Outline:-

• Review of key stakeholders in physician and case manager collaboration
• RN case manager
• Social work case manager
• Physician advisor
• Physician stakeholders
  • Hospitalist
  • ED physicians
  • High volume admitters
• Physician advisor rule
• Job description
• Critical strategies for working with both internal and external physician advisor
• Auditing physician advisor activities.
• PA role and Utilization Review CommitteeHospitalist role
• Specialized hospitalist roles
• Critical strategies for hospitalist and case management collaboration
• Other physician roles and best-practice strategies for case management departments
• Ensuring compliance while working collaborating with physicians

• Conditions of Participation: Utilization management and discharge planning
• 2 midnight rule
• Impatient only list
• Alternative payment models, such as bundled payments
• Rounding and the multidisciplinary team

• The avoidable day process and physicians
• Evaluating your physician collaboration processes

Why You Should Attend?

The case management department involves RN case managers, Social workers, and leaders. The session will emphasize on the role of physician advisors, hospitalists, other key physician stakeholders, and their interaction with the case management department. Some physicians or group of physicians are not able to collaborate with the case management department. Due to this gap, there is an adverse effect on the outcomes of the working of the hospital.

The speaker will focus on the strategy for collaboration of the case management department with the practices of the critical physician stakeholders.

Who Should Attend?

• RN Case Managers
• Case Management Leaders
• Social Workers
• Outcomes and Quality Improvement Managers
• Hospitalists
• Physician Advisors
• Medical Directors
• ED Physicians