RN Case Manager - Case Management
Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
San Diego, CAJob$61.22–105.37/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Case Managers at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego coordinate care among patients, families, payors, healthcare personnel, and outside providers. The role focuses on discharge needs, quality of care, and utilization management for acute inpatients, including concurrent review and denials management. Case Managers support appropriate admissions, authorization and reimbursement, length-of-stay review, and safe transitions of care.
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JOB SUMMARY:
Case Managers function as liaisons between patients, their families, payors, and healthcare personnel to ensure appropriate movement along the continuum of care. Their focus includes coordinating discharge needs, quality of care, and implementing the utilization management process for acute inpatients. Case Managers perform concurrent review and denials management based on acute care guidelines with a focus on authorization and reimbursement, appropriateness of admission, length of stay, and avoidable delays in discharge. The Case Manager collaborates with the family, the care team, third party payors, and outside providers to coordinate discharge needs including home health, durable medical equipment, and safe transitions of care.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
BLS for Health Providers (American Heart Association)
California RN License
Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
4 years nursing in an acute hospital or 2 years Case Management, Utilization Review, or Discharge
Planning experience in an acute hospital
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience in a pediatric acute hospital
Familiarity with Interqual or Milliman Care Guidelines
Experience navigating the electronic medical record (Epic)
The current salary range for this position is $61.22 to 105.37
A candidate’s placement in the range will be determined based on the terms and conditions of the applicable collective bargaining agreement. Rady Children’s Hospital is committed to being externally competitive and internally equitable. We demonstrate this commitment by reviewing market data to remain competitive within the nonprofit, healthcare sector. This posting will remain open from the “date posted” until the hiring manager has determined there is a sufficient applicant pool or until the position is filled.
EOE including disability/vet
How this job compares
Set against the 4,849 open Case Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$61.22–105.37/hr
- California median$29–32/hr227 hourly ranges
- US median$26–30/hr1,440 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $83.30/hr, is 173% above the California median midpoint ($31/hr) — in the top quarter of Case Manager hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 335 open Case Manager jobs in California and 4,849 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Case Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (3,164 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,179 of the 4,849 open Case Manager jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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