MCG and Managing Length of Stay

Amanda Martin, a Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialist with Wickenburg Community Hospital (a critical access hospital in Arizona) discusses how her facility uses MCG's clinical decision support to manage length of stay (LOS). Their results include inpatient stays less than 48 hours have gone down 53% and inpatient stays greater than 96 hours have gone down 14%. In addition, by using the recovery milestones in MCG Inpatient & Surgical Care, the team can progress patients safely toward an appropriate hospital discharge or consider alternative levels of care outside of the acute setting. Amanda also discusses how using MCG Medicare Compliance promotes time savings (having Medicare NCDs and LCDs easily accessible) and has been helpful to her hospital in denial conversations with Medicare Advantage plans that must now comply with the 2024 Medicare Advantage and Part D Final Rule (CMS-4201-F). Learn more: www.mcg.com/ho...