Assignment: Fraudulent or abusive behavior relating to health care services – HLT 520 Week 4

Assignment: Fraudulent or abusive behavior relating to health care services – HLT 520 Week 4

Assignment: Fraudulent or abusive behavior relating to health care services – HLT 520 Week 4

What kinds of fraudulent or abusive behavior relating to health care services can occur in hospital operations? How does the role of the compliance committee help to monitor and prevent these?

HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 1 Latest-GCU

You are a hospital administrator, and you receive a call from a colleague at another hospital. Your colleague, who is a friend, informs you that he has received a demand for a stipend from the ophthalmologists who take ED calls at his hospital, and they want a sizeable raise. He asks you what you pay for that type of call, and suggests that you could both benefit by coming up with a standard rate of pay over which neither of you will go in response to physician demands. It could save your hospitals $300,000 to do this. What is your response, and what is the rationale for it?

HLT 520 Week 5 Discussion 2 Latest-GCU

Do you think that hospitals who engage in group purchasing organizations are engaging in a form of price-fixing? If yes, then why? If no, then why not?

HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 1 Latest-GCU

Examine the concept of “employment at will” and the public policy exceptions to it. How does it fit with the issue of “wrongful discharge?”

HLT 520 Week 6 Discussion 2 Latest-GCU

What do you see as the pros and cons of a unionized environment in a health care facility? How can the right to collective bargaining by employees and the mandate to provide care to patients be reconciled?

HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 1 Latest-GCU

Explore the issues of how to determine if a patient is mentally competent to make his or her own decisions, especially in situations where the decisions do not appear to make sense.

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HLT 520 Week 7 Discussion 2 Latest-GCU

What are the differences between a permanent vegetative state and a coma? How do these differences affect the ethical choices faced by the family and caregivers of the patient? What impacts should the patient’s own wishes have? How would the presence of a living will impact the decision?

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