Case Management Certificate
Kaplan University
If you are interested in promoting quality, cost-effective health care and human services for patients and their families, consider becoming a case manager. Learn to perform assessments, conduct research, analyze data, and plan and manage services and care. By earning a Kaplan University certificate, you can select employment opportunities in diverse and rewarding practice areas, including acute and long-term care facilities, workers' compensation carriers, managed care organizations, and human services agencies.
What Does a Case Manager Do?
Perform assessments, plan and manage patient services and care, conduct research, and analyze data utilizing the methodologies of the case management process. Case managers incorporate case management standards of practice and utilize case management and quality measurement tools in a multidisciplinary approach that incorporates all members of the health care team in the promotion of quality, cost-effective health care
How Much Does a Case Manager Earn?
Case manager salaries have increased on average 14 percent since 2000, with some case managers reporting income in excess of $75,000 annually. Workers' compensation and managed care case managers have reported salaries averaging $55,000 per year.*
Where Does a Case Manager Typically Work?
Insurance companies, managed care organizations, workers' compensation carriers, home health agencies, acute and long-term care facilities, government agencies, human service organizations, and independent practice.
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*Based on a 2003 survey performed by the Case Management Society of America and ADVANCE for Providers of Post-Acute Care.
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