The healthcare sector is one of the areas that is particularly vulnerable to corruption.
This is mainly due to the following characteristics of the healthcare sector, as has been outlined by the European Healthcare Fraud & Corruption
Marsha McMillen Unit 3 Healthcare Compliance Assignment Discuss what you would do as the administrator of this hospice and the five nurses worked for you. If I had been the administrator for this hospice, I would have trained my nurses in the importance of not committing fraud. I would have been very adamant about teaching my staff about the consequences of not being compliant in following the rules and law in reference to fraud. We would have had meetings to go over the compliance rules at least once a week.…
In an ethical perspective, the hospital has to protect the health of its patients alongside its reputation to keep the flow and demands…
Steven Brill, author of America’s Bitter Pill, is very passionate about systems that the government controls and if they are controlling them correctly. Brill has been featured in several famous New York magazines, where he was born and raised. One main idea Brill talks about in these magazines is health care and how corrupt and broken it seems to be. The central idea of America’s Bitter Pill is that it informs people about how awful the healthcare system is so that the government can start fixing it. The health care system has had corruption issues, money problems, and many people has tried to change the system.…
It is vital that healthcare delivery systems must be fair, ethical, makes sense and must involve a universal standard that everyone should abide by. It should comprise all four chief elements discussed in the article “Improving Access to Healthcare: A Consensus Ethical Framework to Guide Proposals for reform”. I do not believe that one element is more important than the other. It needs to be cohesive and comprehensive. Everyone should have access to healthcare; they must not be discriminated.…
Due to this as well as time constraints physicians are gaming the system to give their patients the care that they need regardless of how they have to go about it, they are going as far as outright lying about the patients conditions in order to get needed care without having to jump through the utilization reviews hoops. Patients need to be better health care consumers and physicians need to have sufficient time with patients as well as to be honest and go through the legal steps that they have to in order to practice ethically. In my professional career I will certainly bill properly and question anything that I see as suspicious. If the physician that I am working for performs illegal acts I will either quit the job or report them or…
There are so many aspects to the healthcare field that affect the “Iron Triangle”. It is up to us as healthcare manager to know healthcare in and out so we can implement and decide what direction we need to direct our staff everyday.. We need to understand the impact modern medicine has, why healthcare cost is rising, what major issues we are facing, understanding Medicaid and Medicare and the current state of national health policy. If we were to change one thing it would have to be that there would be a cap on how things are charged so that people were not overcharged for something just because the doctor can. This would help the health care system so much in having a budget to plan for national epidemics.…
Health Care Insurance seems to be the major topic of discussion at this time. The health care reform debate has been a rising issue for several years. The Affordable Care Act expands access to millions of Americans. It focuses on increasing coverage, minimizing cost and the social burden of health care to individuals. Health Care is very crucial to everyone, but not affordable to everyone.…
Introduction Private health care is known in Canada as care that is funded by private sources or by the patient themselves (DeCoster and Brownell 301). There are many different perspectives on whether or not Canada should privatize their health care system. In a situation like this, it must be taken into account what is best in the country’s eyes, and not the perspective of an individual or a single community (Uplekar 898). Quality health care is a concern for many people.…
A lot of people like to pop the question "what does the FBI serve to the U.S.A and what do they contribute to the country?. " Not knowing what they do and how they contribute to the country, could be pretty hard knowing the fact that they like to stay secretive and most of their cases are top secret. Their priorities are highly focused on 10 things. Which are terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence operations, cyber based attacks with high-technology crimes, combat public corruption, civil rights, combat transnational criminal organization, enterprises, combat major white-collar crime, significant violent crime, federal state local international partners, and upgrading technology to fulfill their missions. The main priorities for the FBI gives…
MID STAFF HOSPITAL SCANDAL: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE One of the field where the quality cannot be compromised having certain percentage of deficiency is the healthcare sector. Even a .01% of defective in this field can be risky and the cause may also be loss of life. But mid staff scandal was so shocking for me since the poor quality has led to a very high mortality rate.…
legislators assert on Medicare’s administrators, since it is a public entity. Legislators have significant stakes associated with the health care industry. The health care industry as a whole spend huge sum of money on campaign contributions, lobbying in Washington, as well as contributing directly to the representatives’ local community by operating facilities and hiring from within. Therefore, when the investigators are assessing the provider’s financial records, legislators have to step in to pressure the administrators to back off as it occurred in the Riverside General Hospital.…
Healthcare to U.S Citizens In the USA there are a variety of organizations provided to our citizens. Healthcare plays an important role in our society in general because it factors into our production. Programs, Production of Resources, Delivery of Services, Economic Support, and even Management organize our National Health System; we use this particular system because it shows how health needs or problems can produce health results or outcomes. Not only does it provide a systematic way of examining any one system but it also is a method for comparing health services around the world (Barton, 2009).…
The American healthcare industry is a fluid industry. The healthcare industry is continuously changing, sometimes these changes are good and sometimes they are bad. These changes can be as large as enacting a federal law requiring all Americans to have a form of health insurance, or as small as a multibillion-dollar company giving out grants in order to help those who lack sufficient health insurance. One of these recent changes in particular has thrown the whole system into the spot light and under the microscope. Although some of these changes mange to slip under the radar.…
HealthSouth was what seemed to be an ordinary striving medical business. Some would even say it was the most successful in its field , but unlike other corporations, it had a foul secret. All the grand success that HealthSouth was known for was a lie, a mask to hide what was going on behind the scene, hidden from the public eye. A secret so well hidden, that it went unnoticed for years. A secret so large it broke not only the law but several accounting principles.…
Thus, my professional and ethical standards, i.e. my standards for how healthcare organzations should be run, and my standards for evaluating their quality and social benefit, become of critical importance. They are essential components of one’s profession in the field of health care, and they cannot be shirked to the side. = = =…