Guest guest Posted January 23, 2001 Report Share Posted January 23, 2001 If you mean SNF benefits yes we do also Home Health, it has been done here for quite some time. >>> jbucche@... 01/22/01 04:17PM >>> Hi everyone Do you check to see if patients have nursing home benefits after transplant? I have a patient who was covered for the transplant (heart) but not for the nursing home. In the past I have not been checking this benefit. The patient is from New York and the company excluded this benefit. Thanks Hartford Transplant program >>> LAguiar@... 01/17/01 12:54PM >>> Does anyone know the answer to the attached questions??? Also since we are new to this group could we have some background information on the candidates being nominated. [(Aguiar, )] Sure, for me anyway-I'll let the others speak for themselves. I have been in tx since 11/93 when I swapped jobs w/someone. (Talk about not knowing what I was getting myself into!!) At that time I was working @ Massachusetts General Hospital & continued in there until April 2000 when I came to Beth Israel. While @ MGH I worked w/all the solid organ (kidney, KP, lung, liver, & heart), as well as BMT. Owing to the lack of a Tx Administrator, I dealt w/many issues not normally handled by the TFC, including financial analysis of the programs & contracting issues. As I said previously, I left MGH in April 2000 to take up a new position at Beth Israel. My UNOS activities can be traced back to 1996 when I joined what was then the Pt Access Subcommittee under Tx Administrators. (TAC) The Subcommittee's purpose was to identify non-clinical issues which might preclude a pt's access to tx services. Among the issues identified by the Subcommittee was the variability of TFC's in tx ctrs nationwide. We felt this variability stemmed from the very vague role description contained w/in the UNOS by-laws @ the time pertaining to TFC's. Together with , at that time a TFC w/Univ of Chicago Hospitals (now a nursing student), we undertook a survey of all 272 UNOS member tx ctrs & their TFC's, including staffing levels, training, & practice patterns. Results of this survey were presented at the UNOS Tx Mgmt Forum in San in 1998. Using this data as a foundation, we were able to facilitate an extensive revision of the UNOS TFC by-law, which became effective 6/99. BTW-the Subcommittee has recently evolved into a full-fledged Task Force, which I continue to participate in. I have sought the input of members of this group for a project I'm presently working on involving the exchange of information between the TFC & case mgrs. At the last Tx Mgmt Forum in Savannah I was asked, along w/a, Chaney, Amy Kaye, & Kent to facilitate a " Sunrise Session for TFC's " . More than 40 TFC's stumbled out of bed to join in for some very lively discussions. From that early morning session came this mailing list (which was originally based in my e-mail program until I moved it to eGroups in June), which itself is the foundation of TFCA. Due in large part to the turnout in Savannah & the activity of this group, TAC decided to schedule a TFC-track for the SLC PCW, which I have been organizing, along w/a break-out session in the Main Forum, which I am also organizing. Additionally, I have authored or co-authored the following papers: Smolin, Tracey L. & Aguiar, J. " Psychosocial & Financial Aspects of Lung Transplantation " Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. W.B. Saunders Company, September 1996.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = " urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office " /> Aguiar, J. " The Role of the Transplant Financial Coordinator & Its Effect on Recipient Compliance. " Transplantation Proceedings. Elsevier Science Inc., June 1999 (Suppl 4A). As well as given the following presentations: Zorb, RN ANP & Aguiar, J. " The MGH Experience in Living Related Donor Lung Transplantation. " UNOS Region 1 Clinical Forum, Newton, MA, April 23, 1996. " The Role of the Financial Coordinator & Its Effect on Patient Compliance. " The First International Symposium on Transplant Recipient Compliance, Washington, DC, April 4, 1998. " Ethical Issues in Transplantation. " Northeastern University, Boston, MA, April 23, 1998. " The Role of the Transplant Financial Coordinator. " UNOS Sixth Annual Transplant Management Forum, San , TX, May 3-5, 1998. " Financing the Transplant: Essential Building Blocks of the Bridge to a New Life. " Transplantation: A Bridge to a New Life, s Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Baltimore, MD, June 6, 1998. " Financing the Transplant: Essential Building Blocks of the Bridge to a New Life. " Transplantation: A Bridge to a New Life, s Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Baltimore, MD, June 19, 1999. When TFCA really started to get legs under it last summer, I was asked to serve as the Interim President until elections could be held. I sincerely hope I have fulfilled that role to everyone's expectations & am honored to have been nominated for President of TFCA. I hope this answers your question, . If you, or anyone else in the group, has questions re: this, please feel free to ask. J. Aguiar Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Candidate for President Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 23, 2001 Report Share Posted January 23, 2001 our txp financial coordinators do not check nursing home benefits as a rule. we have a utilization review dept and a socia work dept that get involved in the after hospital care stuff. on occassion we are asked to do a medicaid app for those pts requiring after hospital care who do not have benefits for it... rusty >>> M1@... 01/23 8:15 AM >>> If you mean SNF benefits yes we do also Home Health, it has been done here for quite some time. >>> jbucche@... 01/22/01 04:17PM >>> Hi everyone Do you check to see if patients have nursing home benefits after transplant? I have a patient who was covered for the transplant (heart) but not for the nursing home. In the past I have not been checking this benefit. The patient is from New York and the company excluded this benefit. Thanks Hartford Transplant program >>> LAguiar@... 01/17/01 12:54PM >>> Does anyone know the answer to the attached questions??? Also since we are new to this group could we have some background information on the candidates being nominated. [(Aguiar, )] Sure, for me anyway-I'll let the others speak for themselves. I have been in tx since 11/93 when I swapped jobs w/someone. (Talk about not knowing what I was getting myself into!!) At that time I was working @ Massachusetts General Hospital & continued in there until April 2000 when I came to Beth Israel. While @ MGH I worked w/all the solid organ (kidney, KP, lung, liver, & heart), as well as BMT. Owing to the lack of a Tx Administrator, I dealt w/many issues not normally handled by the TFC, including financial analysis of the programs & contracting issues. As I said previously, I left MGH in April 2000 to take up a new position at Beth Israel. My UNOS activities can be traced back to 1996 when I joined what was then the Pt Access Subcommittee under Tx Administrators. (TAC) The Subcommittee's purpose was to identify non-clinical issues which might preclude a pt's access to tx services. Among the issues identified by the Subcommittee was the variability of TFC's in tx ctrs nationwide. We felt this variability stemmed from the very vague role description contained w/in the UNOS by-laws @ the time pertaining to TFC's. Together with , at that time a TFC w/Univ of Chicago Hospitals (now a nursing student), we undertook a survey of all 272 UNOS member tx ctrs & their TFC's, including staffing levels, training, & practice patterns. Results of this survey were presented at the UNOS Tx Mgmt Forum in San in 1998. Using this data as a foundation, we were able to facilitate an extensive revision of the UNOS TFC by-law, which became effective 6/99. BTW-the Subcommittee has recently evolved into a full-fledged Task Force, which I continue to participate in. I have sought the input of members of this group for a project I'm presently working on involving the exchange of information between the TFC & case mgrs. At the last Tx Mgmt Forum in Savannah I was asked, along w/a, Chaney, Amy Kaye, & Kent to facilitate a " Sunrise Session for TFC's " . More than 40 TFC's stumbled out of bed to join in for some very lively discussions. From that early morning session came this mailing list (which was originally based in my e-mail program until I moved it to eGroups in June), which itself is the foundation of TFCA. Due in large part to the turnout in Savannah & the activity of this group, TAC decided to schedule a TFC-track for the SLC PCW, which I have been organizing, along w/a break-out session in the Main Forum, which I am also organizing. Additionally, I have authored or co-authored the following papers: Smolin, Tracey L. & Aguiar, J. " Psychosocial & Financial Aspects of Lung Transplantation " Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America. W.B. Saunders Company, September 1996.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = " urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office " /> Aguiar, J. " The Role of the Transplant Financial Coordinator & Its Effect on Recipient Compliance. " Transplantation Proceedings. Elsevier Science Inc., June 1999 (Suppl 4A). As well as given the following presentations: Zorb, RN ANP & Aguiar, J. " The MGH Experience in Living Related Donor Lung Transplantation. " UNOS Region 1 Clinical Forum, Newton, MA, April 23, 1996. " The Role of the Financial Coordinator & Its Effect on Patient Compliance. " The First International Symposium on Transplant Recipient Compliance, Washington, DC, April 4, 1998. " Ethical Issues in Transplantation. " Northeastern University, Boston, MA, April 23, 1998. " The Role of the Transplant Financial Coordinator. " UNOS Sixth Annual Transplant Management Forum, San , TX, May 3-5, 1998. " Financing the Transplant: Essential Building Blocks of the Bridge to a New Life. " Transplantation: A Bridge to a New Life, s Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Baltimore, MD, June 6, 1998. " Financing the Transplant: Essential Building Blocks of the Bridge to a New Life. " Transplantation: A Bridge to a New Life, s Hopkins Comprehensive Transplant Center, Baltimore, MD, June 19, 1999. When TFCA really started to get legs under it last summer, I was asked to serve as the Interim President until elections could be held. I sincerely hope I have fulfilled that role to everyone's expectations & am honored to have been nominated for President of TFCA. I hope this answers your question, . If you, or anyone else in the group, has questions re: this, please feel free to ask. J. Aguiar Beth Israel Deaconess, Boston Candidate for President Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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