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Case management
a collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates the options and services required to meet the client's health and human services needs.
Case Management Characteristics
characterized by advocacy, communication, and resource managem...
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Case management - Answer a collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements,
coordinates, monitors and evaluates the options and services required to meet the
client's health and human services needs.
Case Management Characteristics - Answer characterized by advocacy,
communication, and resource management and promotes quality and cost-effective
interventions and outcomes.
Glagow Coma Scale - Answer Client assessment tool that measures level of coma in
the acute phase of injury it is an objective way of recording the conscious state of a
person. Eye opening, Best verbal, best motor. < 8 coma, 13-15 mild injury.
Strengths Based Model - Answer assesses clients capacities and potential resources as
well as problems and current unmet needs. Eliciting capacities and potential resources
as well as problems and current unmet needs.
Independent Living Model - Answer sees a disability as a construct of society
Medicare Prospective Payment System - Answer hospitals paid a pre-determined rate
for each Medicare admission. Each patient is classified into a DRG.
PHQ-9 - Answer Client assessment tool for depression
Clinical Pathway - Answer Structured multidisciplinary CM plan designed to support the
implementation of specific clinical guidelines and protocols. They are maps that guide
the healthcare team on usual treatment patterns related to common diagnoses,
conditions and procedures e.g., CHF
SF-36 - Answer Client assessment tool to measure physical and mental health.
Medicare - Answer Established in 1965 under Title XVIII or Social Security Act. Four
Parts A-hospital insurance, B-medical insurance (doctors visits), C-Medicare Advantage
program in a private plan such as HMO, D-prescription drug benefit
Medicare Benefits and Cost Sharing - Answer Not covered are: Acupuncture,
chiropractor, cosmetic, custodial home care, dental care, DME convenience, hearing
aids, eyeglasses, foot care, meals on wheels, personal convenience, prescription drugs,
private nurses, routine physical, vision
areas of accountability of case management - Answer clinical/outcome
financial
,functional/outcome
satisfaction
behavior
process
*episode or continuum
**individual or population
Measuring performance: Process - Answer The measure of how many pts receive a
treatment or service i.e. vaccinations, screenings, ex. diabetic foot exam ALSO
practitioner's practice conforming to practice standards.
Measuring performance: Functional outcome - Answer The measure reflects the health
state of a patient as a result of health care ex. increased independency in ADLs,
mobility
Measuring performance: Clinical outcome - Answer The measure reflects the health
state of a patient as a result of health care ex. blood pressure goals ex. HgA1c level,
wound healing
Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 - Answer 1. Part of Omnibus
Appropriations Bill. 2. required group health plans to provide coverage for mastectomies
and provide certain reconstructive related services following mastectomies.
Women's health and cancer rights act coverage - Answer 1. reconstruction of the
breast. 2. surgery and reconstruction of the other breast 3. breast prothesis
4. treatment for physical complications attendant to the mastectomy
Women's health and cancer rights act prohibitions - Answer Health plans are not
allowed to deny anyone coverage for the sole reason of avoiding the requirements of
the act AND cannot induce a physician to limit the care that is required under the act by
penalizing or limiting reimbursement to the physician.
Can states modify HIPAA's portability requirement - Answer Yes. HIPAA requirements
do not supercede state requirements. Stricter laws prevail. States can 1. shorten the 6
month look back period. 2. shorten 12 month maximum pre-existing condition exclusion
period.3. increase the 63 day/significant break in coverage 4. increase 30 day period for
newborns, adopted children, children placed in adoption and pregnant women. 5.
Expand the prohibitions on conditions and people to whom a pre-existing condition
exclusion period may be applied beyond exceptions. 6. reduce additional special
enrollment periods. 7. reduce maximum HMO affiliation period to less than 2 months.
,Break in coverage - Answer 63 days or longer that a subscriber has been without health
insurance coverage (not including waiting periods)
Waiting period - Answer period of time specified by health insurance contract that
occurs between signing up for insurance and the beginning of health insurance
coverage. Cannot be counted as creditible coverage time. Individuals can use COBRA
from their previous employers for health insurance
Establishing waiting period - Answer HIPAA does not prohibit plans from establishing a
waiting period. But the waiting period and the pre-existing conditions exclusions must
start at the same time and run concurrently.
Creditable Coverage - Answer For the purpose of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act, coverage under virtually any type indivual or group health care plan
without a break in coverage of 63 days or more. Cannot be taken into account when
determining a significant break in coverage. Only coverage after the 63 day break will
be counted. Any coverage before the 63 day break will not be considered.
COBRA - Answer Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act; law to provide
terminated employees or those who lose insurance coverage because of reduced work
to be able to buy group insurance for themselves and their families for a limited amount
of time.
Certification of creditable coverage - Answer Documentation that is provided
automatically by the plan or issuer when the individual loses coverage or becomes
entitled to elect COBRA continuation coverage and when an individual's COBRA
continuation covearage ceases ; Be provided if requested before loss of coverage or
within 24 months of loss of coverage. May be provided through use of model certificate
Nondiscrimination requirements - Answer Inividuals cannot be excluded from coverage
under the terms of the plan based on specified factors related to health status. Health
plans cannot establish rules of eligibility based on healht status related factors" such as
health status, medical condition, claims experience, receipt of health care, medical
history, genetic information, evidence of insurability or disablity. Insurer cannot drop a
patient from coverage because it knows that the patient will require a liver transplant
next year. Cannot charge more for premiums based on health status.
Security of health information and electronic signature standards - Answer provides a
uniform level of protection of all health information that is housed or transmitted
electronically. pertains to the individual.
Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility ACT of 1982 - Answer the purpose of this act is to
control the rising cost of providing health care services to medicare beneficiaries and
has incentives for cost containment. The act:1. established a case based
reimbursement system (DRG) payment system determined the cost of care for selected
diagnoses while also placing limits on rate increases in hospital venues. 2. Exempted
, medical rehabilitation from DRGs. Rehabiliation would continue as a cost based
reimbursement system with limits. 3. Amended social security act so that group health
plans pay before medicare for active employees 65-69 years old and for their spouses
in the same age group. 4. revised Age discrimination act by requiring employers to offer
health benefits to active employees 65-69 and their spouses in the same age bracket. 5.
establish peer review organizations to reduce costs associated with the hospital stays of
medicare and medicaid patients. Also established hospice benefit.
The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 - Answer A statute that forbids health plans from
placing lifetime or annual limits on mental health coverage that are less generous than
those placed on medical or surgical benefits. Excluded substance abuse. If a plan does
cover mental health, it cannot set a separate dollar limit from medical care. Other limits
allowed: limited number of annual outpatient visits; Limited number of annual inpatient
days; a per visit fee; Higher deductibles and copayments without parity in medical and
surgical benefits. If a parity would require an increase of 1% or more in its health care
costs, the plan would be exempt.
The Pregnancy discrimination act - Answer is an amendment to Title VII stating that
employment discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical
conditions is prohibited as a form of sex discrimination
Newborns and Mother's Health Protection Act of 1996 - Answer Health plans may not
restrict benefits for any hospital length of stay in connection with child birth for new born
or her bother to less than 48 hours following a normal vaginal delivery or less than 96
hours following a delivery by cesarean section. They may not require providers to
request for authorization for up to 48/96 hours . May not increase an individuals
coinsurance for any later portion of a 48 hour /96 hour hospital stay. 3. they cannot
provide monetary payments to encourage a mother to accept less than minimum
protections available under NMHPA. They cannot penalizeor other wise reduce or limit
the reimbursement of an attending provider because the provider furnished care to a
mother or newborn in accordance to NMHPA. They cannot provide monetary or other
incentives to an attending provier to induce the provider to furnish care to a mother or
new born in a manner inconsistent with the NMHPA.
The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 - Answer MHPAEA
preserves the MHPA protections and adds significant new protections, such as
extending the parity requirements to substance use disorders. Although the law requires
a general equivalence in the way MH/SUD and medical/surgical benefits are treated
with respect to annual and lifetime dollar limits, financial requirements and treatment
limitations, MHPAEA does NOT require large group health plans or health insurance
issuers to cover MH/SUD benefits. The law's requirements apply only to large group
health plans and health insurance issuers that choose to include MH/SUD benefits in
their benefit packages. However, the Affordable Care Act builds on MHPAEA and
requires coverage of mental health and substance use disorder services as one of ten
EHB categories
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