Registered Nurse Case Manager (RN)

Conifer Health Solutions • Phoenix, AZ

16d

About The Position

Position Summary The RN Case Manager is responsible to facilitate care along a continuum through effective resource coordination to help patients achieve optimal health, access to care, and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient’s resources and right to self-determination. The individual in this position has overall responsibility for ensuring that care is provided at the appropriate level of care based on medical necessity and to assess the patient for transition needs to promote timely throughput, safe discharge, and prevent avoidable readmissions. This position integrates national standards for case management scope of services including: Utilization Management supporting medical necessity and denial prevention; Transition Management promoting appropriate length of stay, readmission prevention, and patient satisfaction; Care Coordination by demonstrating throughput efficiency while assuring care is the right sequence and at appropriate level of care; Compliance with state and federal regulatory requirements, TJC accreditation standards, and Tenet policy; Education provided to physicians, patients, families and caregivers.

Requirements

• Academic degree in nursing (bachelor's or master's)
• Acute hospital case management experience.
• Accredited Case Manager (ACM) RN.
• Must be currently licensed, certified or registered to practice profession as required by law or regulation in state of practice or policy.
• Active RN license for state(s) covered.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• 2 years of acute hospital patient care experience.

Responsibilities

• Accurate medical necessity screening and submission for Physician Advisor review
• Care coordination
• Transition planning assessment and reassessment
• Implementation or oversight of implementation of the transition plan
• Leading and facilitating multi-disciplinary patient care conferences
• Managing concurrent disputes
• Other duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level