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Professionalism and Ethics
Professionalism deals with the development, monitoring, and maintenance of procedures to ensure that the needs of professional staff are met. Ethics includes identifying, monitoring, and disseminating codes of professional conduct; understanding the implications of ethical decisions, providing procedures to monitor standards of behavior within the organization; and determining, maintaining, and monitoring accountability procedures.
May 2008
Thursday May 29, 2008
Posted by: Robert Wilcox at 10:48PM EST on May 29, 2008
We are currently trying to determine who gets organizational provided services such as cell phones, Internet service at home, and Blackberry's. Current plans are to provide them to Physicians and Executives, but not to lower levels of management who also need to use them but will be required to pay out of pocket fees to operate them. Has anyone else had to decide on how to provide these types of organizational resources? Would you consider this an ethical issue or not?
Tuesday May 27, 2008
Posted by: Kathryn Wood at 12:12AM EST on May 27, 2008
When identifying examples of ethical conflicts, William Nelson referred to the influence of vendors and suppliers. How does your organization proactively try to avoid this ethical conflict? Does your organization have a vendor policy? How does your organization foster an organizational culture that reflects ethical practices with regards to supply purchases and utilization practices?
Saturday May 24, 2008
Posted by: Vivian Leopold at 11:37PM EST on May 24, 2008
The case study reading assignment for this week's Ethics topic is obviously meant to be thought provoking as it does not give us all the situational facts to make a conclusion. I have to wonder if the now underperforming clinic was originally intentionally placed in this part of the community in order to serve this un-served/under-served segment (perhaps more in line with the mission), or if due diligence wasn't thorough to know there would be a high amount of unreimbursed healthcare services that would negatively impact the financial situation?
Friday May 23, 2008
Posted by: Timothy Neville at 3:24PM EST on May 23, 2008
I personally find P4P to be an ethically challenged program. Seems to me it promotes cherry picking of patients who will 'contribute' to good numbers and better reimbursement. Thoughts?
Thursday May 22, 2008
Posted by: Franka Tirado at 4:42PM EST on May 22, 2008
Beyond regulations and penalties, what other drivers are there that motivates companies to commit to a high level of ethical conduct?
Posted by: Charmaine Rochester at 12:54PM EST on May 22, 2008
Is it expected that the ethical culture of a for-profit hospital will be different from that of a non-profit hospital? Are non profits held to a higher standard?
Wednesday May 21, 2008
Posted by: Jason Grant at 1:53PM EST on May 21, 2008
At what time in the decision making process is management ethically responsible to inform its workforce their is a possible reduction in force? For example, if management came to the conclusion that there would be a reduction of anywhere between 5-10%, should it inform its workforce immediately with what details are know, or can management wait until they are certain on a percentage reduction and specific jobs to be eliminated? Monday May 19, 2008
Posted by: Brian Thompson at 7:10PM EST on May 19, 2008
In the Finance portion of this tutorial, cost shifting was discussed. Cost shifting, the practice if increasing costs to one payor source to supplement the lack of reimbursement from another. Is this ethical? Should one group be responsible for paying the difference for another's inability to pay?
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