[SWRN84]

Intellicare is also a company where employees are remote....work from home. They offer triage nursing and/or disease management. Great company to work for. They have openings coming up. Go to their website.

[UnitRN01]

Originally Posted by Lizzy6

I would look in your city Sunday newspaper. Also, do you receive the nursing Spectrum and Advance magazines (they are free), I see a few ads posted with every new issue advertising for case managers. Some of these positions are either work at home/some are not. Also, do a search for Concentra, Intracorp, Genex as others have posted etc...Submit a resume, they could have contracts in your area. Worth a shot. Hope that helps.

Lizzie

Yes, thanks so much for this information! There are many postings about how great case management is, but knowing where to begin is paramount!

[wincha]

Originally Posted by bakcmst2007

good evening wincha....i myself am also interested in working cm for an ins co....but dont have much experience in cm...may i ask what ins co would be good to apply to or who you work for? Any advice or input would be helpful..

can you private message me that question? i can't figure out how to pm you.

[anbreen]

Originally Posted by lolly1123

I have been an RN for 7 years. Worked sub-acute unit, charge nurse on tele/oncology at hosptial and now am at the health department. I was wondering if I look in the Insurance companies for CM work am I qualified without taking more education? Do most places want you to have CCM? Will they do much training? Is that the best place to start out? I just really need a career change!!!! I love being a nurse but getting to hate my job.

I did it the other way around. I was a CM and UR coordinator for over 20 years, but NOT a nurse! I have a CCM and CDMS. Since then, I've got my LVN and am going for an RN.

Bankers hours, national holidays, stock options. Most of it is just, plain common sense.

Negatives-- Working during a merger or hostile takeover is hell!

However, your job satisfaction depends on the specific insurance company you work for. The range is very braod- re: management skill v. idiocy.

[Karen_tn_37211]

How did you get to be a CCM without a professional credential? Everything I see says you have to have a professional license in order to even sit for the exam.

[anbreen]

Originally Posted by Karen_tn_37211

How did you get to be a CCM without a professional credential? Everything I see says you have to have a professional license in order to even sit for the exam.

I have an M.A. in Rehab, a CRC, a CDMS. and .. I forget how many years of case management experience they required, but I had them. Board certifications count like nursing licenses do.

[shortstuph0]

Originally Posted by Erin RN

I work as a worker's comp case manager for GENEX and I love it!!! GENEX is VERY good to their employees. My home branch is about 300 miles from me so I work out of my home.

Erin

Can I ask you what path you took to get to where you are now?

[anbreen]

Originally Posted by m&ms mom

Lizzy6------Just wondering if you could give me any ideas of how to find a work from home case management position, or what companies to look at......Thanks

I worked for UnumProvident, Pacificare, and Aetna. Someobody here wrote that she works for Genex. They hire a lot, too. Zenith, all the Workers Comp companies. The Blues are supposed to be good to work for.

Most of case management is like utilization review-just common sense, within guidelines!

I did that for a LONG time. :-)

[nursemaryl]

I have been a WC case manager for about 10 years. Had more than 15 years in the hospital before that. I have done telephonic in an office and field from home. Telephonic is more 8 to 5 than field is but field has more flexibility. You can take an afternoon off if you want without taking PTO if you make up the time which is easy to do when you can write reports from home at night. The big WC insurers are ESIS, Sedgwick CMS, Gallagher Bassett and AIG. The big WC case management companies are Coventry health care (they bought out Concentra), Corvel, Genex and Intracorp. I love case management and the autonomy of not having anyone breathing down your neck all of the time. When I was working in the field my bosses were all at least 50 miles away and one of my bosses was almost 200 miles away. You can talk to them on the phone whenever you want but it is nice not having them right there. I now write life care plans for the catastrophically injured and love that but I do miss the people contact that I had in the field. Lots of luck.

[lyv33]

Originally Posted by nursemaryl

I have been a WC case manager for about 10 years. Had more than 15 years in the hospital before that. I have done telephonic in an office and field from home. Telephonic is more 8 to 5 than field is but field has more flexibility. You can take an afternoon off if you want without taking PTO if you make up the time which is easy to do when you can write reports from home at night. The big WC insurers are ESIS, Sedgwick CMS, Gallagher Bassett and AIG. The big WC case management companies are Coventry health care (they bought out Concentra), Corvel, Genex and Intracorp. I love case management and the autonomy of not having anyone breathing down your neck all of the time. When I was working in the field my bosses were all at least 50 miles away and one of my bosses was almost 200 miles away. You can talk to them on the phone whenever you want but it is nice not having them right there. I now write life care plans for the catastrophically injured and love that but I do miss the people contact that I had in the field. Lots of luck.

Nursemaryl,

It sounds like you work for or worked for Coventry formerly Concentra just by naming their jumbo accounts. Are you still with them? I was recently hired by them and would have been laid off except I went back to my former employer because I was not getting the referrals to keep up my full time hours.