Advisory Board – Member Articles

The Role of Social Determinants – Don’t Let Them Disappear
June 2025 | Mary McLaughlin-Davis, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM, Cynthia Fleece, RN, ACM-RN, MBA & Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, ACPA-C, CHRI

NPAC 2025 in Chicago: Physician Advisors Reach New Heights
April 2025 | Stephanie Van Zandt, MD, ACPA-C
 

Utilizing Utilization Management Nurses for Length of Stay Management
August 2024 | Alvin Gore, MD

The Future of Physician Advisors: Is There a Role in Outpatient Prior Authorizations?
February 2024 | Clarissa Barnes, MD, FACP

How to Make Positive Progress with Your Executive leadership: The Power of the P’s
August 2023 | Stephanie Van Zandt, MD

Let’s Speak the Same Language in Denial Management
August 2023 | Denise Wilson

Z Codes Another Tool to Demonstrate the Value Hospital Case Managers Provide to Their Patients and Their Hospitals
June 2023 | Mary McLaughlin Davis, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM

The Silent Crisis
April 2023 | Cynthia A Fleece, RN, MBA, ACM-RN, CHCQM-CM

Acute Blood Loss Anemia (D62): In Denials, Not All Literature is Created Equal
February 2023 | Clarissa Barnes, MD, FACP

Surviving Denial Management… 
September 2022 | Sharon Easterling, MHA, RHIA, CCS, CDIP, CRC, FAHIMA

The Regulatory Nuances of Observation
September 2022 | Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHRI

Physician Advisors and Case Managers: Collaboration in Learning and Practice 
August 2022 | Mary McLaughlin Davis, DNP, ACNS-BC, NEA-BC, CCM

The Perfect Storm – Healthcare 2022
May 2022 | Cynthia A Fleece, RN, MBA, ACM, CHCQM-CM

Physician Advisors: To Practice, Or Not To Practice
March 2022 | Clarissa Barnes, MD, FACP

Basics of Medicare-Severity Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG)
March 2022 | Ahmed Abuabdou, MBBS, MBA

The Inpatient Only List Reinstated 
March 2022 | Jessica L. Gustafson, Esq. & Abby Pendleton, Esq.

Cancelled Surgery – Change the Status?
February 2022 | Ronald Hirsch, MD, FACP, CHRI

The Outliers’ Conundrum
October 2021 | Alvin Gore, MD

Proactive Length of Stay Management
September 2021 | Sue Erwin DNP, RN, MHA, ACM-RN, CMAC