CMP may serve as solution to patient status concerns

Editor’s note: This article is the second in a two-part series on patient status.

Developing clear patient status indicators helps improve quality of care. Creating a case management protocol (CMP) based on these clinically approved indicators helps clinical and admissions staff members determine the appropriate patient status, which in turn helps reduce admissions claims denials.

“I can’t imagine that hospitals wouldn’t want to get their auditing strengthened and use something like a case management protocol to determine the correct patient status,” says Suzanne K. Powell, BSN, RN, MBA, CPHQ, CCM, of Florida’s Quality Improvement Organization (FQIO).