AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by Case Management Monthly
presented on February 28, 2008
Each year, hospitals spend $34 billion in uncompensated care. With nearly 50 million uninsured patients in the U.S., case managers consistently struggle to treat and discharge patients with little or no insurance. Many hospitals lack the ability to connect the uninsured to vital community resources and prevent non-emergent cases from clogging the emergency department (ED).
Safely discharge the uninsured without sacrificing your hospital’s bottom line
Listen to HCPro and expert speakers Wendy DeVreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, and Matt Boettcher, LCSW for this audioconference. In just 90-minutes, you and your colleagues will learn how to apply both simple, short-term and formalized, long-term solutions for managing the uninsured and underfunded populations that have proven successful at a small community hospital and a large trauma center.
Don’t miss our speakers as they share different, cost-saving models of and case examples for dealing with this growing problem. You and your staff will gain insight from hospitals that saved money by investing in free prevention instead of repeated treatment.
AGENDA
- The uninsured dilemma: Growing implications for hospitals
- National picture
- Boarder-state issues
- How do uninsured patients affect the case manager?
- Local level
- International level
- The insured, underfunded patient
- Exhaustion of benefits
- Identifying alternative methods of care
- Critical thinking process
- Interdisciplinary formation of programs
- Community resource network and development
- Charity care doesn’t have to hurt your bottom line
- Federal regulations
- Non-profit hospital
- Charity programs
- Criteria for community benefit
- How to apply models from small, community and large, trauma settings
- Short-term strategy: Cost-benefit analysis tool for critical thinking
- Long-term strategy: Formalized committee programs
- Complex case examples: Strategies to handle difficult discharges
- Community discharge of unfunded patient
- International discharge case
- Q & A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After participating in the audioconference, audience members should be able to:
- Describe the growing implications of the uninsured dilemma for hospitals
- Recognize four ways the uninsured patient population affects the case manager
- Identify alternative methods of care for the uninsured using critical thinking, interdisciplinary support, and community resources
- Discuss cost saving measures to provide charity care
- Apply short-term and long-term models from small, community and large, trauma settings in your hospital
- Identify strategies to handle difficult discharges in small and large settings
BONUS TOOLS
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll receive a slide presentation of the program materials and these valuable tools:
- Sample form for charity consideration
- Critical thinking protocol
- Cost benefit sheet
These materials are provided with PDF links.
FACULTY
Wendy DeVreugd, RN, BSN, PHN, FNP, has been a registered nurse for over 36 years and a Family Nurse Practitioner for 27 years, and is currently the senior director of Case Management programs for the West and Midwest States for Kindred Healthcare LTAC system. In this role, she is responsible for 12 states and 42 facilities. DeVreugd is also the West Coast advisory member on the Editorial Board of HCPro’s Case Management Monthly: Best Practices and Practical Solutions periodical, and is a creative writer with other areas of children’s books and poetry. She has 28 years expertise in UM and Case Management services.
Matt Boettcher, LCSW, is the Director of Case Management at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, the largest acute care hospital in Arizona and the flagship hospital for Catholic Healthcare West. The system is a 40 plus hospital system with headquarters in San Francisco. Mr. Boettcher is also a Consulting Associate for The Center for Case Management located in South Natick, MA. He is a published author on family support in intensive care units, has served on the Field Advisory Board for the Arizona State University School of Social Work along with serving as a Field Instructor, and is a frequent lecturer on a wide range of topics including development of RN/MSW case management teams, coordination of health care needs for undocumented aliens, programmatic charity care, denial management, and reducing length of stay in high acuity patients.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Directors of case management, case managers, hospital administrators, social workers, RNs, hospitalists and finance staff
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