Monday, Feb. 19, 2018
Trending Hot Topic Broadcast
10-10:30 a.m. ET; 7-7:30 a.m. PT
SPECIAL GUEST
Mary Beth Pace, RN, BSN, MBA, ACM, CMAC
Vice President, Care Management
Trinity Health
FEATURING
Nancy Beckley, MS, MBA, CHC;
David Glaser, Esq.;
Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHCQM;
Betty Lengyel-Gomez; and Jeffrey Pilger, MD
Should total knee replacements (TKRs) be performed as inpatient or outpatient procedures? Some facilities are admitting all of them as inpatient while other facilities take a more conservative approach to admission. How are TKRs being handled at your facility?
Mary Beth Pace, vice president of care management at Trinity Health and the special guest on the next edition of Monitor Mondays, frames the conundrum as a hypothetical patient/caregiver conversation: “we are going to do major surgery on you, but we are not sure if we will keep you after surgery – and oh, by the way, there will be a copay and deductible either way, we don’t know which one. But don’t worry, it will be a good thing to have your knee in working order again.” Tune in to the broadcast when she reports on how TKRs are admitted at Trinity.
Also reporting on this timely subject will be Jeffrey Pilger, MD, a board-certified lead physician advisor affiliated with St. Elizabeth Healthcare Edgewood in Edgewood, Ky.
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