Transplant Administration

Lisa Norris

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781118346631
• eBook ISBN: 9781118391983
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Surgery & Surgical Medicine

Transplant Administration

This timely new book, written by a transplant administrator with over sixteen years of experience, along with other expert contributors, covers the specifics of each aspect of transplant administration, providing information that will enable new administrators to quickly master essentials, help more seasoned administrators evaluate and improve their programs, and generally provide a knowledge base, focused on best-practices in light of regulatory requirements, for transplant surgeons, aspirant administrators and hospital administrators.

• Comprehensively covers all aspects of transplant program administration, including management, finance, staffing, quality improvement, patient intake, communication and collaboration with clinical staff, and more.
• Emphasizes practical application of best practices; uses bullet lists and other features to highlight essential information for each topic covered.
• Accompanying "Toolkit", available via the book's companion website, provides forms, a procedural manual, program assessment materials and more which buyers can use "out of the box" or adapt for use in their own program.

While the book and its supplemental materials have been created specifically with the US transplant community in mind, they still have considerable value for transplant administrators and related professionals outside the US, for instance, transplantation and health policy researchers, hospital management staff who are tasked with starting a transplant program from scratch and who need ready-made materials they can adapt to suit their own regulatory environment, and others.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Companion Website
• Chapter 1: Organ Allocation: NOTA, the OPTN, and Policy Development
• Chapter 2: Organizational Structures
• Chapter 3: Human Resources
• Chapter 4: Clinical Services
• Chapter 5: Regulatory and Compliance Issues
• Chapter 6: Transplant Finance
• Chapter 7: Managed Care Contracting
• Chapter 8: Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement
• Chapter 9: Transplant Information Management and Transplant Information Systems
• Chapter 10: Strategy and Marketing
• Chapter 11: Managing and Leading the Transplant Enterprise
• Appendix 1: Human Resources: Lists of Transplant Staff Duties
• Appendix 2: Human Resources: Medical/Surgical Director Job Description
• Appendix 3: Human Resources: In-Patient Transplant Coordinator Orientation
• Appendix 4: Human Resources: Post-Transplant Coordinator Orientation
• Appendix 5: Human Resources: Pre-Transplant Coordinator Orientation
• Appendix 6: Human Resources: Transplant Social Work Orientation
• Appendix 7: Regulatory and Compliance Issues: Surveyor Worksheet— Organ Transplant Program Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement
• Appendix 8: Transplant Finance: Kidney Organ Procurement Rates for 2013
• Appendix 9: Managed Care Contracting: UNOS RFI Example
• Appendix 10: Managed Care Contracting: Sample Letter to Claims Department
• Appendix 11: Managed Care Contracting: Sample Managed Care Contract
• Appendix 12: Insurance Approval Form
• Index