...Health Law, Regulations, and Policy Paper Michelle Hobbs HCS/545 June 13, 2016 Qiana Amos Health Law, Regulation, and Policy Paper Today’s health care industry is more than just providing medical services to individuals in need; it encompasses various laws, regulations, and policies that direct how care should be provided and what the ramifications of non-compliance will have on the health care provider and the organizations where services are rendered. There are various kinds of laws, regulations, and policies that affect the health care industry. Some may believe that laws, regulations, and policies all have the same requirements, benefits, and implications, but there are differences between the three and the impact they have on health care. As the ability of the health care industry continues to expand, the need for additional laws, regulations, and policies will be necessary to ensure the quality and equitable delivery of medical services continues to improve alongside the medical services. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 One law that governs the manner in which health care services are rendered is Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This law states “no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance (United States Department of Labor, n.d.). For health...
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...Running head: HEALTH CARE LAWS, POLICIES, AND REGULATIONS Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Frank Frimpong Manso HCS 545 July 4, 2016, 2016 Prof Elam Health Care Laws, Policies, and Regulations Health Law, Regulation, and Policy has become the means of health protection and prevention for the American people. The government highly regulates these laws improving the health of the public by developing programs, resources, and tools, aiding in health care access, however, there are also different private bodies involved in regulating the healthcare sector. Health care regulation is focused on three main roles; cost control, quality control, and access expansion and control. This paper will discuss the impact of ACA on health care organizational policies. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is a health care regulation signed into law on the 23rd of March, 2010. The law’s main focus had been to increase the affordability and quality of American health insurance. Its policies were focused on lowering the rates imposed on the uninsured through the expansion of both the private and public insurance covers. It had also aimed to reduce the health care costs incurred by the government along with citizens. Barely seven days after its enforcement had a new health care law come into effect with amendments to the ACA. On March 30, 2010, the president of the United States signed into law the Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The law had been enacted...
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...Health Care Reform Summary Alfreda Bostick HCS/455 February 27, 2012 Marilyn Ketchum, CANP Health Care Reform Summary Health Care Reform is generally used for discussing major health policy creations or changes. This is saying the government policy affects health care delivery in any given place. Health care reform attempts to: * Broaden the population that receives health care coverage through a private or public insurance program. * Expands the options of health care providers for consumers to choose among * Improve the access to health care specialists * Improve the quality of health care * Give more care to citizens * Decrease the cost of health care (New Federal Health Claims & Appeals Laws & Regulations, 2010). This paper is going to examine the proposed health care reform by the Obama-Biden plan. It is going to highlight the major current problems in health policy. This paper is also going to show what role the health industry played in the health reform. Also, this paper is going to show that the profit driven HMOs are the problem and not the solution. Our health system has grave problems that require reform. These problems are examples of the unrelenting growth in the number of Americans uninsured over the past years. About one-third of the Americans are inadequately insure, either completely uninsured, or underinsured such that if a major illness like cancer, he or she would likely go bankrupt because of this disease and treatments...
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.....................2 We are passionately focused on business results and customer success. ........................................14 Fair Dealing .....................................................................14 SECtIon I EtHICAL BEHAVIoR We uphold the highest ethical standards and are accountable for all we do. .................................5 Antitrust and Competition .............................................5 Anti-corruption and Bribery ..........................................6 Gifts .....................................................................................7 Integrity of Commercial Transactions ..........................7 International Trade Laws ................................................7 We are good citizens, protect employee health and safety, and manage natural resources responsibly. .......................................................8 Our Expectations in Doing Business ...........................14 Competitive Information ..............................................14 SECtIon III oUR CULtURE We treat each other with dignity and respect, and believe in diversity of thought, culture and background. ...............................................16 Our Responsibilities to Each Other ............................16 We believe helping people grow is everyone’s responsibility. ...............................................17 We set stretch objectives and embrace change. .......18 Public Affairs...
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...Health Management IT Author’s Name: Institutional Affiliation: Date: Health Management IT The Willow Bend Policy protects the information on health for the storage and destruction of both paper and the electronic health records based on the Florida state regulations, the Medicare participation conditions and the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act). Among the common criteria required in the in the Medicare participation conditions is the provision of a medical record service that caters for the patient’s medical record. In this policy, the health information is put in electronic documents in the Apex Patient folder. The Willow Bend Policy is in line with the HIPAA. It maintains the converted paper health records into electronic health records maintained in an area that is safe and secure. This is because the HIPAA requires that the patient information is stored with confidentiality. The privacy provisions that include the security provision are also stated in the HIPAA Administrative Simplification provisions. This is so that the patient health information (PHI) is safely stored and its transmission and usage is done properly. The HIPAA privacy rule sets conditions that aim at protecting the health information which to be used and disclosed for the purpose of research. It also protects the rights for discharged patients to acquire their own information held by the covered entities. This Policy thus helps in maintaining the privacy...
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...Human Resources Management March 24, 2014 Author Note This paper was prepared for Human Resources Management- HCS341, taught by Alejandra Sipion. Safety, legal, and regulatory requirements in any organization is the most important law because the department involves developing, employing, utilizing, managing and understanding the staff in an organization. According to Gomez, Mejia, Balkin, and Cardy (2010) legal concerns can play an important role in staffing, particularly in selection. Many legal restraints, particularly federal legislation such as Department of Labor, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission affects the Human Resource Management process. This paper will discuss the effects of legal, safety, and regulatory requirements have on the Human Resource Management process. Laws and regulatory requirements are currently in place for state and federal divisions to standardize and promote workplace safety. Organizations with extensive safety programs have reduced number of accidents keeping employees safe, decreased workers’ compensation claims and lawsuits and lesser accident-related expenditures for employees who go out under worker’s compensation. (Gomez-Mejia, et al, 2010, p. 511). The Human Resource Management department must take into consideration when hiring new employees the many legal requirements that are set in place by the United States government , state, and federal laws. The Civil Rights Act of 1991 prevents discrimination against race...
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...The patient health record contains important information regarding clinical quality and care. The health record is also undergoing a radical evolution as more imaging becomes available and digital record keeping becomes the norm. The HIM professional needs to have a clear understanding of how to manage increasingly complex sources of health information. In this paper, we will discuss how the HIM professional should manage the use of paper forms in a hybrid environment in order to maintain the integrity of the health record. We will also compare the strengths and weaknesses of using hybrid records and discuss legal issues that may arise when using hybrid records. Additionally, we will evaluate the “Willow Bend Record Policy” to determine if it protects health information for record storage and destruction of paper and electronic health records based on Kansas state regulations, Medicare Conditions of Participation, and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The term hybrid health record is used in today’s healthcare environment to describe a format that has both paper based and electronic information. Given that this type of health record is complex in content, it comes with additional requirements in regard to management. This is particularly true when comes to managing patient information into a concise, presentable formation. As HIM professionals, we should also be seeking ways to improve access to information and balancing that access with security....
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...President Barack Obama passing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), a federal statute which, in tandem with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA) of 2010, formed the Health Care Reform Act of 2010. This dual set of reforms jointly address many of the undesirable issues that have transpired within the United States health care system, such as offering citizens a cost-effective broad choice of Insurance coverage, bringing skyrocketing healthcare costs under control, making Medicare more efficient, and enacting consumer protection laws which will hold insurance companies accountable for the prevalent discriminatory actions which have pervaded the system (Obama, 2009). However, HCERA opponents will continue to utilize legislative protocol to upend the policy. As with any perceived discrepancy in the legislative process, opponents of HCERA are outraged that the “Democratic leadership’s decision to “ram through” reform using budget reconciliation to modify the Senate-passed bill sufficiently to make it acceptable to the House” (Aaron & Reischauer, 2010). As much as “outrage” may have no legitimate place in policy-making, high emotions will nonetheless negatively affect future debate. The level of vitriol from the opposition to health care reform reached unprecedented heights, with people like Glen Beck comparing health care reform to Nazi eugenics. "You have three people in the White House that are in love with eugenics or whatever it is you would...
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...Comparison Paper Jaime Prado February 4, 2016 Comparison Paper In the United States, we are all very fortunate to have resources for families, communities, state and nationally. These resources are available to all individuals regardless of religion, race or sexual preference. Here in Ventura County, we have the Ventura County public health department, and their mission is healthy people, healthy families, and healthy communities. Ventura County Health Care Agency 2015). The state of California has the California Department of public health; their vision is Healthy individuals and families in healthy communities. The California Department of Public Health is dedicated to optimizing the health and well-being of the people in California. (California Department of Public Health 2015). Nationally we have the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and their mission is to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2015). The Ventura County public health offers many services; some of them are free of cost and others to offer financial assistance to individuals who do not have insurance. Some of the frequently requested services from the public health are emergency medical services, health promotion, and education, communicable disease reporting forms and these are used by family practice and hospitals, and HIV and Aids Center. More over then providing services to the community, the public health department...
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...Health Law and Regulations Paper Veronica Jenkins HCS/544 May 26, 2014 Professor: Kelly Gantt In the health care industry, regulations play an important role “Through various regulatory bodies, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) protects the public from a number of health risks and provides programs for public health and welfare” (fiercehealthcare.com). Implementing these two helps protect health care agencies and also regulate public health on every level. “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), founded in 1965, oversee most of the regulations related directly to the healthcare system” (fiercehealthcare.com). CMS provide numerous programs through the government. The health care industry has numerous regulations in healthcare. One example of laws and regulations facing health care is HIPPA. The transformation from paper charts to electronic records raises a great concern in the breach of security. “In addition, interoperability of systems is expected to create yet more breaches, as information is traded between networks. Laptop theft is the most common type of data breach, accounting for 24 percent of reported breaches, according to HHS. Desktop computers were involved in 16 percent of breaches and portable devices such as smart phones were involved in 14 percent” (beckershosiptalreview.com). Human and Health Service (HHS) require individual to notify patients when their information was breach. “The regulations, developed...
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Kelly N McCoy HCS/335 May 19, 2014 Melissa Green, MHA Administrative Ethics Paper Safeguarding patient privacy has been a serious problem even with current technology. Not only are “regular” patients at risk; celebrities and politicians are at a greater risk related to the current culture of social media, reality television, and the “need to know” attitude of today’s society. In the past ten years, serious issues with breeches in celebrity and politicians privacy and confidentiality have risen. For example, in 2013, the reality star Kim Kardashian’s and rapper Kayne West’s medical records were inappropriately accessed between June 18th and June 24th, after giving birth to a baby girl at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Associated Press, 2013). In order to ensure and safeguard patient privacy and confidentiality, issues related to breaching patient privacy must be addressed. This paper will address the following: 1. Background information in relation to the breach of Kim Kardashian and Kayne West’s privacy. 2. Arguments or specifics used in the article to support the proposed solution. 3. Ethical and legal issues. 4. Managerial responsibilities related to administrative, ethical issues. 4. Solutions to reduce and prevent breaches in patient privacy. Last year, reality star Kim Kardashian and Kayne West’s medical records were wrongly and unauthorized accessed by five employees of Cedar-Sinai Medial Center after the birth of their daughter (Associated...
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...IFSM 304 – Ethics in the Information Age Learning Portfolio Assignment Descriptions Here are the detailed Assignment Requirements and Summary (Reflection Paper) that comprise activities for a Learning Portfolio for IFSM 304. These activities, along with class discussion and any other assignments your professor may require will enable you to achieve the course objectives and demonstrate knowledge of key concepts and apply this understanding to real-world digital ethics topics and situations. Understand that your work will comprise a Learning Portfolio for the course and these assignments are linked! You will be faced with work that advances with a progression from a general basic framework for decision making to more specific analysis and critical thinking about more complex ethical issues. Current Events 5% Conference Posting of articles on IT-related Ethical Global issues (multi-national corporation) The purpose of this assignment is to analyze a current event article on global ethical issues from a multi-national corporation perspective. This assignment is designed to increase your knowledge from a corporate viewpoint and enable you to analyze ethical issues from a current GLOBAL situation or event. This will also enhance your research and writing skills and your critical-thinking abilities. Select a current topic (2010 source or later) and find an appropriate article on the topic. Provide the persistent URL (one that anyone can click on to read the...
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...A. Summarize the four major pieces of legislation collectively known as the Antitrust Laws. Antitrust laws were put in place to make business’s compete fairly. These fall into four main areas: agreements between competitors, contractual arrangements between sellers and buyers, the pursuit or maintenance of monopoly power, and mergers. The four major pieces of legislation collectively known as the Antitrust Laws are; the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Celler-Kefauver Act of 1950. The Sherman Antitrust Act has two categories that are targeted; ○ to restrain or prevent trade among states or foreign nations ○ prohibit against monopolies. ○ Only the United States Department of Justice has the power to prosecute individuals who are suspected of violating this act, (unless the individual state has the power granted by its own antitrust legislation.) The Federal Trade Commission Act ○ created the Federal Trade Commission ○ gave the Commission the power to enforce United States Antitrust legislation. The Clayton Antitrust Act ○ passed to prohibit mergers and acquisitions when those would substantially lessen competition. ○ enabled state attorney generals the ability to prosecute and enforce federal antitrust laws. ○ outlawed price discrimination, regulated stock acquisitions, and tying contracts ○ The Robinson - Pitman Act amended the Clayton Antitrust Act by banning...
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...Syllabus-MBA (Hospital Administration) PAPER – I: BASIC CONCEPT OF HEALTH -Code MHA 101 Concept of Health and Disease • Concept of health & disease and well being. • Natural history of disease and role of hospitals to offer various levels of care • Prevention aspect of diseases • Dynamics of disease transmission • Changing pattern of diseases • Concept of health indicators Preliminary Human anatomy and Physiology • Basic concepts of human anatomy • Basic concepts of human physiology Suggested Reading: Human Anatomy- Prof. Samar Mitra Human Anatomy- Prof. A. K. Dutta Text Book of Human Physiology- Dr. C. C. Chatterjee Common Pathological Conditions • Basic concepts of pathogenesis of common diseases • Basic concepts of interpretation of investigations reports Suggested Reading: Robbin’s Textbook of Pathology – Robbin, Cotran, Kumar Textbook of Microbiology – Ananantanarayan & Paniker Basic concepts of Pharmacology: Commonly used Medicine in a hospital, Narcotic drugs, use and abuse of drugs. Dispensing of medicine, Drugs store, drug stock / purchase of medicine, oxygen, I/V Fluid, Chemicals etc. Suggested Reading: Textbook of Pharmacology: Dr. K. D. Tripathi PAPER – 2: Hospital Based Healthcare & Its changing scenario-Code MHA 102 Overview of Hospital • Concept of Modern Hospital & Privatization in Health Sector • Public Sector Hospitals and Level of care / offered facilities ...
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...Process HCR/220 October 7, 2012 How HIPAA Violations Affect the Medical Billing Process In this paper we will discuss how HIPAA violations affect the medical billing process and why HIV and AIDS information is more sensitive than other types of health conditions. We will also examine the social, legal, and ethical ramifications of improper information disclosure. In 1996 on August 21, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the Federal Government and signed into law by President Bill Clinton (HIPAA – The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 2011). According to “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” (2012), “HIPAA does the following; provides the ability to transfer and continue health insurance coverage for millions of American workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs, reduces health care fraud and abuse, mandates industry-wide standards for health care information on electric billing and other processes, and requires the protection and confidential handling of protected health information” (What is HIPAA?). The main reason HIPAA was enacted was to protect patient’s personal health information regardless of its severity. Their personal health information is just that, theirs! For that reason, among many other, it is very important to know that a patient’s personal health information is not to be shared with any unauthorized person for any reason. Kibbe (2001) states “every...
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