What is the difference between HH Case Manager and hospital/insurance CM?

[MyUserName,RN]

Hi All, I am about to be starting a position as a Case Manager RN with a home health agency. I have two years of acute care experience in a hospital. I'm very interested in case management and home health care, but may eventually want to get into case management in a hospital or for an insurance company way down the road. I know that the home health CM still has direct contact with patients in the home and that the hospital or insurance CM's generally don't do any pt care. What are the other differences between the two? Will my experience as a home health CM be beneficial for the future in other areas of case management? Also, does the experience as a CM with home health qualify you to sit for the certification?

Thanks for any input!

[WC Case manager]

How do you get started on Case Mngt? All the posted jobs want you to have experience or certification? Any ideas? I am particularly interested in Workers Comp.

I work in workers comp and had previous experience in hospice. They are so very different. Work comp is more demanding and you provide coordination of care and services for the injured worker. You also go to appts with the IW, arrange for PT, and deal with the docs and adjusters. Having hospice experience qualified me to sit for CCM and RN-BC.. Field experience in HH and hospice prepare you to work autonomously and to get the job done. I love WC but it can be all encompassing. I work way too many hours and it sometimes is really consuming. The only way to get into WC is to put forth all effort, do what you need to do and eventually get certified. That helps tremendously. Some companies like to hire nurses without other comp experience.

[MauraRN]

Hi All, I am about to be starting a position as a Case Manager RN with a home health agency. I have two years of acute care experience in a hospital. I'm very interested in case management and home health care, but may eventually want to get into case management in a hospital or for an insurance company way down the road. I know that the home health CM still has direct contact with patients in the home and that the hospital or insurance CM's generally don't do any pt care. What are the other differences between the two? Will my experience as a home health CM be beneficial for the future in other areas of case management? Also, does the experience as a CM with home health qualify you to sit for the certification?

Thanks for any input!

Yes your home health case management experience per the CCMC

[MauraRN]

an absolute easy way to gain experience in case mgt is in home health........RNs are case mgr over their patients care..... do that for a while, guess what you are experienced case mgr

THIS is what I was responding to. See the third word of sentence.

[MauraRN]

Maybe you should take your own advise hun. :)

I asked what the difference was between CM in HH and in the hospital. I didn't ask how easy or hard HH is or to be told to lighten up when I wasn't even offended and all you could add to this conversation is that HH is not easy. You haven't added anything useful to this conversation, thanks anyways though. Have a good one!

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