Health Law: Regulation And Compliance Paper
Health Law: Regulation and Compliance
Melanie Apligian
HCS/545
June 2, 2014
Shawna Butler
Health Law: Regulation and Compliance
Healthcare has brought on rapid changes for all specialties, addressing proficiencies established by medical facilities in caring for increasingly complex patients in this changing environment. Employees are constantly confronted with legal and ethical dilemmas in clinical decision making; in addition those professionals need to be aware of the way in which the law regulates their professional careers. Legal and ethical issues have been an increased concern when having to produce important decision in their clinical careers. Furthermore, all healthcare professionals are individually …show more content…
Law Suit
This lawsuit was transpired based on evidence that local hospitals were freezing the current pay scale for nurses so that they don’t shop around from one hospital to another. Due to the nursing shortage, it has become extremely difficult to hire nurses and to keep them content. If nurses find a higher salary somewhere else, they would choose to work there instead.
Hospitals have been in desperate need to retain nurses, furthermore offering competitive hourly wages and signing bonuses which aids in retention. The nursing profession has become extremely demanding due to shift changes and shortage creating dissatisfaction and burnout.
Employment Discrimination
The legal foundation for all citizens to purse the profession of their choosing and to advance in their chosen careers subject to the limitations of only their individual qualification, talents, and energies is represented by The Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (University of Phoenix, …show more content…
However, in order to receive payment from third-party payers such as insurance companies, the patient’s diagnosis may have to be revealed no matter how embarrassing it is for the patient. Modern medicine and technology have meant that patient privacy issues have become of concern among patients, medical professionals, and ethicists. In many cases, patients have become fearful of admitting to what could be uncomfortable facts, such as drug misuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and mental health issues.
Some may argue that the laws, regulations and standards that were created in 1996 were because of concerns with patient confidentiality. While these are mostly designed to protect the public, it is also for administrative regulations to ensure accreditation and subsequently secure reimbursement funds for organizations. The federal law that was created to protect patient health information is known as The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (University of Phoenix, 2006).
Legal
Melanie Apligian
HCS/545
June 2, 2014
Shawna Butler
Health Law: Regulation and Compliance
Healthcare has brought on rapid changes for all specialties, addressing proficiencies established by medical facilities in caring for increasingly complex patients in this changing environment. Employees are constantly confronted with legal and ethical dilemmas in clinical decision making; in addition those professionals need to be aware of the way in which the law regulates their professional careers. Legal and ethical issues have been an increased concern when having to produce important decision in their clinical careers. Furthermore, all healthcare professionals are individually …show more content…
Law Suit
This lawsuit was transpired based on evidence that local hospitals were freezing the current pay scale for nurses so that they don’t shop around from one hospital to another. Due to the nursing shortage, it has become extremely difficult to hire nurses and to keep them content. If nurses find a higher salary somewhere else, they would choose to work there instead.
Hospitals have been in desperate need to retain nurses, furthermore offering competitive hourly wages and signing bonuses which aids in retention. The nursing profession has become extremely demanding due to shift changes and shortage creating dissatisfaction and burnout.
Employment Discrimination
The legal foundation for all citizens to purse the profession of their choosing and to advance in their chosen careers subject to the limitations of only their individual qualification, talents, and energies is represented by The Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (University of Phoenix, …show more content…
However, in order to receive payment from third-party payers such as insurance companies, the patient’s diagnosis may have to be revealed no matter how embarrassing it is for the patient. Modern medicine and technology have meant that patient privacy issues have become of concern among patients, medical professionals, and ethicists. In many cases, patients have become fearful of admitting to what could be uncomfortable facts, such as drug misuse, sexually transmitted diseases, and mental health issues.
Some may argue that the laws, regulations and standards that were created in 1996 were because of concerns with patient confidentiality. While these are mostly designed to protect the public, it is also for administrative regulations to ensure accreditation and subsequently secure reimbursement funds for organizations. The federal law that was created to protect patient health information is known as The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (University of Phoenix, 2006).
Legal