American Case Management Association

Organizational Membership was created by ACMA to help organizations provide support to their case management departments. A minimum of 10 members is required for a Hospital Organizational Membership, and 35 is required for a Health System Membership. Discounted dues of $115 per member are available for all memberships provided under an Organizational Membership.

Hospital Case Management Research Series

In addition to the discounted national membership dues, each organization membership will receive the Hospital Case Management Research Series. This is a series of correlative studies using the data gained in the 2007 National Hospital Case Management Survey. This national benchmarking data has a confidence level of 95%, and this new series of studies correlate findings to CMS-reported outcomes data.

These studies seek to explore today's most relevant issues in Hospital Case Management. There will be a total of 12 studies, which will be distributed to Organizational Members in monthly installments. The first four studies in the series will be:

Avoidable Delay Benchmarking Comparative Study
What are the costs and outcomes benefits of Case Management’s involvement in Quality functions?
Is there a correlation between reporting relationships and Case Management outcomes, resource requirements and functions?
Study of Case Management functional areas extending beyond medical/surgical inpatients to include involvement in Admission, Emergency Department, Outpatient care, etc.

Other Organizational Membership Benefits

As part of an Organizational Membership, individuals receive all ACMA member benefits including:

Learning Link - an online list-serve/discussion board that instantly networks you with over 1900 other case management professionals nationwide. You will receive an email invitation to join learning link within your first week of membership.
Standards of Practices & Scope of Services for Hospital/Health System Case Management – this valuable resource document is enclosed.
Collaborative Case Management –ACMA’s quarterly journal. Each issue includes articles on the most current challenges and topics in hospital case management.
ACMA briefCASE –ACMA’s weekly one-page email newsletter that keeps you informed of important events, deadlines, and legislative updates. You should receive your first edition within the next week
Members’ Only Access to ACMA’s Website –log in to the website and gain access to legislative updates, ability to change contact information, and more. Your username will be your first initial and last name (i.e. Jane Smith would enter jsmith), and your initial password will be the last four digits of your Membership ID. Please allow two weeks for your login to become effective.
National Hospital Case Management Survey – this comprehensive survey is produced every other year and contains comprehensive data about hospital case management with a 95% confidence level. This is the only source for national benchmarking data for hospital case management.
Educational Conferences – ACMA hosts twenty National and Regional educational conferences each year. All are focused specifically on hospital case management. ACMA members are automatically eligible for discounted registration, and attendees earn CE hours.
NICM/ACMA National Conference –this is ACMA’s most popular event each year, and includes the ACMA Annual Meeting held in conjunction with the NICM Case Management Conference. ACMA members receive discounted registration and access to additional events at the conference.