Avoidable Delay Day Analyzer (Book)
Product Description:
Does your facility struggle to reduce the number of avoidable hospitalization days for your Medicare patients?
Are those avoidable days hacking away at your bottom line?
Are they hindering your quality of care?
Now you don't have to struggle! HCPro introduces a proven solution for reducing the number of unnecessary days Medicare patients spend in the hospital—Avoidable Delay Day Analyzer: Data identification tools for effective case management. It's a user-friendly CD-ROM with a step-by-step user's guidebook.
Catholic Healthcare West in San Francisco used the methods found in Avoidable Delay Day Analyzer and reports phenomenal results. Take a look!
- $18.4 million annual cost savings (using only $350/day saved per patient)
- Greater than 52,000 bed-days increase annually
- $21.6 million in new revenue annually due to increased admissions
Needless hospitalization days often result in:
- Poor clinical outcomes for patients
- An increased risk of infection for the patient
- Unnecessary tests and procedures
- Higher incidents of legal difficulty
Did you know that every unnecessary day a Medicare patient spends in the hospital can cost anywhere from $600 to $1000? This book will help you determine why you have avoidable delay days and how to combat the problem.
This one of a kind resource will help you:
- Collect valuable data—so you can determine the monetary value of the days your hospital is saving
- Identify poor practices that are resulting in avoidable days
With this book and CD-ROM you'll find:
- The Potential Avoidable Day Indicator spreadsheet formula
- Interqual® education and criteria documentation
We'll walk you through the criteria CMS uses to determine when a patient is ready for discharge and tell you how to get case managers to apply the criteria effectively and consistently
- Validation audit
- Utilization management policy and procedure
- Collection of case studies
It's an innovative excel spreadsheet tool that will help you determine the monetary value of the days your hospital can save based on CMS length of stay criteria—great for CEO/CFO buy-in!
Instructions for conducting an audit of records to help you establish attainable goals
A solid base to help you minimize avoidable hospitalization days
What better way to learn than by successful examples!
This CD-ROM is jam-packed with:
- Potential Avoidable Day (PAD) Indicator Report
- Sample PAD Indicator Report
- PAD Access Database
- Sample PAD Access database
- PAD Indicator Report Quick Reference Guide
- Sample audit sheet
- Sample policy and procedure for avoidable days
The CD-ROM also includes The Potential Avoidable Day Database
It's an easy-to-use Access Database—accompanied by step-by-step instructions—that will allow you to:
- IDENTIFY, TRACK and CODE potentially avoidable hospital days involving Medic,are patients
- Create letters that allow you to share your data with the right people (e.g., department managers and physicians) to affect change
- Tailor forms and letters to your organization's needs
Avoidable Delay Day Analyzer will help you discover why avoidable hospitalization days occur, who's responsible for them, and how to tackle the problem head on. This one-of-a-kind tool will help you gain buy-in and support for avoidable day reduction initiatives from other members of the healthcare team and your hospital's management because Avoidable Delay Day Analyzer will allow you to clearly communicate the effects of avoidable days.
With the ingenious tools and easy-to-implement techniques you'll find in Avoidable Delay Day Analyzer: Data Identification Tools for Effective Case Management, you're facility can begin to reduce delay days and increase revenue today!
About the author:
Gail Riley, RN, PHN, MPA-HSA, has been a leader in case management for more than 20 years. Currently an independent consultant, she made her mark creating a hugely successful medical management and case management program for Catholic Healthcare West (CHW)—one that helped the San Francisco-based system find $18.4 million in annual cost savings, and $21.6 million in new revenue from increased admissions and efficiency.
She also developed an electronic avoidable day program for all of CHW's hospitals, and an electronic physician practice analysis severity-adjusted system that provided information to physicians relative to their efficacy in length of stay and costs when compared to the average physician in the state of California.
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