Prepare for Case Management with confidence

What your Case Mgmt 90-day path covers

• ✓What a case manager is: the role, the credential and the day
• ✓The case management process: assessment, planning, coordination, advocacy
• ✓Care coordination and continuity: holding the plan together across settings
• ✓Communication and collaboration across settings
• ✓Patient and family education: teaching for the week after discharge
• ✓Discharge planning and transitions of care: the seventy-two hours around the move
• ✓Documentation and the legal and ethical frame: the record that carries the plan
• ✓Technology in case management: the record, the exchange and the monitor
• ✓Utilization review and authorization: writing to the criteria
• ✓Insurance and reimbursement principles: how care is paid for
• ✓Insurance navigation and prior authorization: getting to yes
• ✓Case management for cardiac patients: heart failure, coronary disease and the thirty days after
• ✓Case management for respiratory conditions: COPD, asthma and the home that breathes
• ✓Case management for diabetes and endocrine disorders: insulin, access and the four examinations
• ✓Case management for chronic kidney disease: the slope, the access and the choice
• ✓Case management for behavioral health and addiction: the system that is not one system
• ✓Case management for oncology patients: treatment, transitions and the conversation
• ✓Case management for older adults: function, frailty and the home
• ✓Case management for vulnerable populations: homelessness, poverty and substance use
• ✓Complex medical cases: multimorbidity, palliative care and the plan that holds
• ✓Hospital-based case management: length of stay, throughput and the safe discharge
• ✓Home health and community-based case management: the plan in the place it has to work
• ✓Managed care organization case management: the member, the benefit and the year
• ✓Workers' compensation case management: the injury, the claim and the return to work
• ✓Disease management programs: designing the program that reaches the people who need it
• ✓Population health management: risk, attribution and the systems that keep a population well
• ✓Data analysis and program evaluation: knowing whether the program worked
• ✓Telehealth in case management: reach, monitoring and the limits of the screen
• ✓Outcome measurement and quality improvement: measures that mean something and changes that stick
• ✓Cost-benefit analysis and resource allocation: spending the caseload where it changes the outcome
• ✓Social determinants of health and community resources: the plan that includes the rent
• ✓Ethical dilemmas in case management: when the patient, the payer and the plan disagree
• ✓Cultural competence and humility: the plan that fits the person's world
• ✓Advocacy and systems navigation: getting the patient what the system owes them
• ✓Psychosocial assessment and mental health integration: the whole person in the plan
• ✓Leadership and professional development: growing in the role and growing the role
• ✓Conflict resolution and difficult conversations: saying the hard thing well
• ✓Interdisciplinary care teams: running the team that runs the plan
• ✓Caseload and time management: doing the right work for forty patients
• ✓Certification preparation and practice examination: the CCM and ACM, and how to pass them

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