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Travel Nurse RN - Case Manager, Utilization Review - $2,250 per week

AMN Healthcare Nursing · Portales, NM · 2 days ago
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Job Description & Requirements

Specialty: Utilization Review
Discipline: RN
Start Date: 07/20/2026
Duration: 13 weeks
36 hours per week
Shift: 12 hours
Employment Type: Travel

Position Summary

Routine case management, discharge planning, swing bed coordinator and utilization review duties.

Position Duties

  • Evaluating and screening potential admissions to the facilities swing bed program
  • Knowledgeable of criteria for Medicare, Medicaid, HMO, swing bed and private insurance coverage
  • Initiate ongoing communication with the resident and resident's family to assess discharge needs
  • Actively involvement in daily rounds with bedside staff, physicians and ancillary team members
  • Communicate with physicians to ascertain their plans for a timely discharge
  • Document updates and discharge planning as an ongoing review
  • Manage and collaborate with the healthcare team on swing bed placement and complete MDS documentation as necessary
  • Assist with obtaining referrals, prior authorization for Home Health Care, CME, SNF, acute rehab and appointments
  • Edutes physicians and staff regarding appropriate level of care/utilization and required documentation that meets admission status
  • Run Interqual for each IP and OBS patient admitted to the floor

Minimum Required Qualifications

  • NM/compact RN license
  • 5 years recent acute hospital case management and utilization review experience
  • Discharge planning, Utilization Review, and swing bed coordinator experience

Length of Assignment

13 weeks

Shift / Hours Per Week

0800-1630

Systems

Meditech, Interqual

Start Date

ASAP

Job Benefits

  • Become an AMN Healthcare professional
  • Gain critical career experience
  • Work with new people
  • Earn a highly competitive salary
  • Enjoy additional benefits such as medical, dental and vision benefits, earned time off and paid holidays, paid continuing education time, 401(K) retirement planning, short-term disability, life insurance, paid jury duty, access to the largest network of facilities and providers in the country, industry experienced workforce management team, licensure and certification reimbursement

About AMN Healthcare Nursing

AMN Healthcare is a leader in Nurse staffing. Our relationships with numerous healthcare facilities - including hospitals, home health agencies, and long-term care facilities - enable us to offer the most current travel nurse, local staffing, rapid response and crisis nurse jobs nationwide. We're committed to finding you the best nursing job to fit your career goals.

About the Company

At AMN Healthcare, we strive to be recognized as the most trusted, innovative, and influential force in helping healthcare organizations provide quality patient care that continually evolves to make healthcare more human, more effective, and more achievable.

AMN Healthcare Nursing

AMN Healthcare is a leader in Nurse staffing. Our relationships with numerous healthcare facilities - including hospitals, home health agencies, and long-term care facilities - enable us to offer the most current travel nurse, local staffing, rapid response and crisis nurse jobs nationwide. We're committed to finding you the best nursing job to fit your career goals.

AMN Healthcare

At AMN Healthcare, we strive to be recognized as the most trusted, innovative, and influential force in helping healthcare organizations provide quality patient care that continually evolves to make healthcare more human, more effective, and more achievable.

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