Job Summary: The Nurse Care Manager is responsible for providing care coordination including in-home assessment, planning, facilitation, advocacy and authorization of covered plan services to meet the member's health needs while promoting quality cost effective outcomes. Essential Functions: Ensures consistent care along the entire health care continuum by assessing and closely monitoring members’ needs and status. Authorizes covered services and coordinates care regardless of payer. Collaborates and communicates with member/family/caregivers, primary care practitioners, and the interdisciplinary team. Works with member/family to maintain the most independent living situation possible Assesses, plans and provides continuous care management across all venues of care, including hospital, sub-acute, long-term and home settings. Regularly assesses members for ongoing eligibility for services based on the specific plan’s eligibility criteria. Performs home visits as required to assess members’ living situation, cultural influences, functional and cognitive needs. Collaborates with the primary care physician and Inter-Disciplinary Team (IDT) to develop the Patient Centered Service Plan for the member. Ensures appropriate, safe plan for members’ discharge from their plan. Identifies same day grievances, investigates and documents accordingly. Documents any grievance according to plan policy. Identifies and presents members with complex care management needs or in difficult to manage situations at Intensive Care management meetings (ICM). Responds to members’ requests in the designated timeframes and completes Initial Adverse Determinations (IAD) as indicated Identifies members requiring Care Management Review (CMR), evaluates documentation provided by the IDT including hospital or nursing home discharges planners, and formulates appropriate plan of care. Documents care management/coordination according to company policy to the specific plan the member is enrolled in, which may include monthly telephonic and in person recertification notes. Develops efficient plans of care, authorizing only needed services at the most appropriate levels, utilizing network providers and ensuring that services are based on members’ needs. Perform any other job related duties as requested. This job description is not all inclusive. CareSource reserves the right to amend this job description at any time. CareSource is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to fostering an environment of belonging that welcomes and supports individuals of all backgrounds. The CareSource mission is known as our heartbeat. Just as we support our members to be the best version of themselves, our employees are driven by our mission to create a better world for members, stakeholders and providers. We are difference-makers who combine compassionate hearts with our unique business expertise to make every opportunity count. Each claim, each phone call, each consumer-centric decision is a chance to change the world for one member, and our employees look for ways to do that every day. The challenge is, there is no one right way to be the difference and we’re looking for people like you that will rewrite that definition every day. We do what it takes to form creative solutions that make our community and the world just a little better. Discover what it means to be #UniquelyCareSource.
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree