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AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE OR CD

Sponsored by Case Management Monthly

presented on April 20, 2006

When the CMS expanded the postacute care transfer payment policy from 29 DRGs to 182, your facility’s bottom line was immediately and adversely affected. With the reimbursement stakes so high, you need to know how to manage this dramatic increase and you need to know now.

Realistic and effective strategies to tackle the most common DRGs

You can not devote equal time to all 182 DRGs. Instead, a more realistic and effective strategy is to focus on the most common Transfer DRGs.

During this audioconference our speakers will help you identify your facility's essential transfer DRGs, and offer specific case management strategies to best manage them for maximum safety and reimbursement. They’ll also walk you through real life case studies that will put the critical information, best practices, and strategies shared into perspective.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the program, attendees will be able to:

1. Identify and manage the most frequent Transfer DRGs for maximum safety and reimbursement
2. Explain the relationship between LOS and Transfer DRGs
3. Construct your own program using a special Transfer DRG tool
4. Identify specific case management strategies for managing surgical and medical DRGs

PROGRAM AGENDA

1. Overview of the Transfer DRG
1. Expansion of DRG's from 29-182
2. Most important 10-20 DRG's for hospitals to focus on

2. DRG Chart 
1. How to utilize

3. Best Practices
1. How to manage top DRG's using the chart
2. What's happening nationally

4. DRG Case Studies
1. Surgical
2. Medical

5. Audience Question and Answer Session

PROGRAM MATERIALS

In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive a slide presentation of the program materials and tools like the 182 Medicare Transfer DRGs FY06 Chart. These materials are provided with PDF links.

FACULTY

June Stark, RN, BSN, MEd, is the director of case management at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA, which includes Salem and Union Hospitals. She also acts as an associate consultant for The Center of Case Management in Natick, MA. Stark previously held the position as director of care management at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, and participated in the development of case management at New England Medical Center in the 1980s.

Jean O’Leary, BSN,CCM,CRRN,MPA/H, is a case manager at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, MA.  She is the coordinator of the Presurgical Orthopedic Assessment program. This innovative program was initiated in January, 2006.  Prior case management experience includes:  Director of case management, HealthSouth New England Rehabilitation Hospital (NERH), Woburn, MA; case manager and program manager, Spinal Cord Injury Program at NERH; and medical/vocational case manager at John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

1. Case managers
2. Directors of case management
3. CFO

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