CONTACT: Debbie Frost, Murer Consultants (815) 727-3355
With the complexity of legal reimbursement issues being the most difficult
obstacle to overcome in establishing the success of healthcare facilities,
three executives from Murer Consultants, Inc., Joliet, IL, wrote the Post
Acute Care Reimbursement Manual, published by McGraw-Hill and released
November, 1997. The key to effective healthcare delivery is through the
appropriate use of multi-venues of care along a continuum. Post acute
care is comprised of both impatient and outpatient service delivery models.
Post Acute Care Reimbursement Manual, written by Cherilyn
Murer, Michael Murer, and Lyndean Lenhoff Brick, is the healthcare executive’s
hands-on reference to reimbursement and legislation for specific venues
of care. The changing nature of the Balanced Budget Act turned everything
upside down. Post Acute Care Reimbursement Manual focuses on this issue.
Post Acute Care Reimbursement Manual answers specific
reimbursement issues, shows how to widen the walls of limitations that
policy imposes, provides details of the successful financial operation
of healthcare facilities, updates Medicare regulations for post acute
care, details emerging venues of care including Medical Day Hospitals™ and
alternative healthcare, and demonstrates how Medicare Risk Contracting
serves as a bridge to future reimbursement methodologies.
To keep the executive informed on the ever-changing
regulations and interpretation of policies and procedures, quarterly
updates are available free of charge for the first year. The first quarterly
update is now available and it includes the 1997 Balanced Budget Act.
Post Acute Care Reimbursement Manual is the second
book to published by McGraw Hill and Murer Consultant authors. Murer
Consultant authors are releasing their third book this May.
The first book, The Case Management Sourcebook, released
June 1997, is a comprehensive guide to understanding, developing, and
implementing healthcare case management. Murer Consultants third book,
Compliance: Audits and Plans for Healthcare will be a legal and practical
guide in conducting compliance programs and plans.
Cherilyn G. Murer, who earned her law degree from Northwestern
Illinois University, is president and CEO of Murer Consultants, Inc.,
a legal-based healthcare management consulting firm in Joliet, Illinois.
Ms. Murer is currently the director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Northwestern
Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.
Ms. Murer currently serves on the editorial advisory
boards of Aspen Publishers, CurAnt Communications and Stevens Publishing
Corporation. Ms. Murer has been a columnist for Rehab Management Magazine
for the past five years.
Michael A. Murer, J.D., Executive Vice President and
General Counsel for Murer Consultants Inc. has been a practicing attorney
for over twenty years. In addition to his extensive trial practice and
community service work, he has been active in issues related to healthcare
law including corporate organization, contract negotiations and the structuring
of joint ventures.
Mr. Murer received his Juris Doctorate degree from
Georgetown University Law Center and earned his Bachelor of Science degree
at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Lyndean Lenhoff Brick, a graduate of the Ohio State
University School of Law, is a recognized expert in the field of healthcare
law and serves as Senior Vice President of the company. She has gained
a national reputation for her work with the interpretation and application
of Medicare rules and regulations.
Additionally, Ms. Brick consults in the areas of strategic
and long range planning for healthcare providers and regularly advises
clients in the assessment and development of joint venture opportunities
in the healthcare industry, as well as the feasibility of development
of alternative sites of care such as CORFs and subacute care facilities.
Brick, who has served as the contract administrative director of a national
system of healthcare facilities, is widely published in journals covering
the international healthcare industry.
Murer Consultants, Inc. represents more than 600 hospitals
in 42 states, Canada, and Europe. They include some of the nations largest
for-profit as well as not-for-profit healthcare chains.
Murer Consultants, Inc. is located at 58 North
Chicago Street, Joliet, Illinois and can be reached at (815) 727-3355
or viewed on Web site (http://www.murer.com). |
