Safe discharge plans for the uninsured
Matt Boettcher, LCSW, the director of case management at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ, has developed a charity committee model that helps his facility handle these patients. He is also an expert on the dilemma and politics of this issue, and is ready to give you advice.
Push play to hear what he had to say in an interview:
In an upcoming audio conference (7.15.09), Matt will give solutions for dealing with the uninsured. He will cover:
The uninsured dilemma: Growing implications for hospitals
- National picture of the uninsured
- The new “medically poor”
- Undocumented aliens
- Location
- Regional differences
- Exhaustion of benefits
- Medical repatriation to country of origin
Politics
- Alternatives to hospital care
- More generous or more restrictive Medicaid programs
- Government vs. community programs – services in the community which may be dependent on grants/tax revenue.
- Universal healthcare
Losing money by not spending money
- Federal regulations
- Non-profit hospital
- Charity programs
- Criteria for community benefit
Solution: Implementing a charity committee
- Complex case examples with charity committee intervention: Strategies to handle difficult discharges
- Community discharge of unfunded patient
- International discharge case
Click here to sign up for Caring for Uninsured and Undocumented Patients: Safe and Cost-Effective Discharge Solutions–live audio conference on July 15, 2009.
Questions? Ideas for future shows? Contact me, Julie McGinley, at JMcGinley@hcpro.com.
About the Author: Julie works in the case management market at HCPro, Inc. She works on all of HCPro’s product lines for case managers including books, audio conferences, journals, videos and an eNewsletter. To contact her with questions, comments, or to be a blog writer, email jmcginley@hcpro.com.
