GrnTea that is the point Exactly the employers should be aware so if they are not telling their employees this fact are we to assume they are willfully skirting the law? What agency would have...
Check with your state BON. If you feel you can't give safe and effective care then you can refuse any assignment. In addition you may very well have a duty legally to report neglect and abuse. He...
Thank you elpark i appreciate you condensing the facts surrounding my question. I want to know though how many CMs are working across states lines that did not know or were not told by their employer...
I am interested to know if nurses working from home are informed by their employer they need additional licensure for out of state cases under certain circumstances? Did your employer pay for getting...
I tried to answer you private msg. Typed a big long reply and when I hit send it said I was not allowed to send private messages..sigh and deleted it...sigh. Any way learn the WC reg inside and out,...
You can telecommute with Aetna and do UR, I believe they still require you to start in office. AHH (owned by Aetna) will start you at home right away after training in Ohio. Many of the UR nurses...
Mmlils30, I know of some CM doing 10 hr shifts at AHH and Meritain which are part of Aetna. Reality is that since it is salaried position many scheduled to work 8 hrs are working 12-14 days and...
I did worker's compensation cm for 5 years. I am now in another speciality. In some ways it was better because the adjuster has a lot of control over the decision to pay for something. I had an...
@been there.... Perhaps "stuff" was not a word choice to your liking? How about I phrase it as finding the appropriate criteria based on the clinical documentation supplied by the physician or...
I would say the interqual had a short learning curve of less than a month because it was basically check a box and get a green or red light. Milliman took a good 6 months to really be able to find...
That sounds more like a QA job to me for sure not actual CM. In our organization all of our QA reviewers that review the CM documentation are RNs and most are also CCMs. I hope that you have a tough...
I don't do Medicaid. However, I do complex CM where I handle both the CM functions and the UM side of the case. First is it the actual review of records or the software that is confusing you? I am...
It is a fallacy that when you work from home you "set your own hours". In fact you will probably work more than your scheduled hours, especially if you are salaried. They have many ways to monitor...
facts about AHH. They pay much less than the Aetna pay scale. You are salaried and paid based on an 8 hr day...but are required to post 9 hrs of billable time each day and lots of your day is taken...