The Case Manager is responsible for coordinating patient care, managing insurance approvals, monitoring resource utilization, and ensuring efficient discharge planning while supporting the Revenue Cycle Department. The role focuses on optimizing insurance approvals, reducing claim denials, ensuring medical necessity documentation, and improving hospital revenue through effective case and utilization management in compliance with UAE healthcare regulations.
Responsibilities:
- Case Management & Care Coordination
- Assess patient medical and clinical needs
- Coordinate with physicians and nursing teams for treatment planning
- Monitor patient progress and length of stay
- Identify high-risk and long-stay patients
Facilitate patient transfers in collaboration with clinical teams, ensuring medical records, treatment plans, and discharge documentation are complete.
2. Insurance & Revenue Cycle Coordination
- Real-Time Visibility & Escalation of Inpatient Pending Approvals
- Maintaining real time tracking of all Inpatient pending approvals and escalate cases exceeding defined turnaround times to relevant stakeholders (Clinical team, RCM insurance).
4. Utilization Management
- Monitor Average Length of Stay (ALOS)
- Ensure efficient use of hospital resources
- Conduct concurrent and retrospective case reviews
- Support cost-effective treatment planning
- Ensure compliance with payer guidelines
5. Discharge Planning
- Coordinate safe and timely discharge
- Ensure discharge documentation is complete
- Coordinate follow-up care and insurance approvals
6. Documentation & Compliance
Coordinate with the clinical team to ensure proper and complete medical documentation to support insurance approvals, coding, and billing requirements.
Maintain accurate case management records
Ensure compliance with health regulations, Insurance policies, and hospital revenue cycle policies
Support Insurance audits
Prepare utilization and case management reports
7. Revenue & Quality Support
Reduce insurance rejection rate
Improve approval turnaround time
Support revenue optimization
Monitor case management KPIs
Participate in revenue cycle and clinical meetings
Qualifications:
Education
MBBS / MD / BSN
Certified Professional Coder
Experience
- Minimum 3 years UAE Hospital experience
- Experience in case management, utilization review, discharge planning preferred
Experience working with insurance and TPAs is an advantage