Case Study: The Rise of India’s Drug Industry (reference article online for further detail on case story) 1. How might US pharmaceutical companies and US consumers benefit from the rise of the Indian pharmaceutical industry? 2. Who might have lost out as a result of the recent rise of the Indian pharmaceutical industry? 3. Do […]

Health care providers are fallible and will make mistakes. Unfortunately, these errors can sometimes have dire consequences for patients, and the providers, as well as the organizations, may be held liable for the harm that resulted. In this Application Assignment, you will analyze a case study of medical error for its legal and ethical implications, […]

Case Scenario Ms. G., a 23-year-old diabetic, is admitted to the hospital with a cellulitis of her left lower leg. She has been applying heating pads to the leg for the last 48 hours, but the leg has become more painful and she has developed chilling. Subjective Data Complains of pain and heaviness in her […]

Week 2-A: The False Claims Act contain qui tamor whistleblower provisions.Discuss the pros and cons of being a whistleblower. If you were aware of fraudulent issues in your healthcare organization, do you agree that reporting such an issue should be mandatory [why/why not] and should penalties be imposed if fraudulent activity is not reported Week […]

Breaches of law and ethics can occur in all areas of health care. When this happens at higher levels of an organization the breach can have a particularly negative impact, because health care leaders set the tone for an entire organization.In this Discussion you will assess how administrators should address legal and ethical challenges in […]

Declining Trust in the Health Care System (The Trust Crisis) Health reform is mired in the morass of multitiered payment systems and multiple modes of access, limited by the ability to seek and to pay. Increasingly, patients are interacting with multiple entities within the system, causing more and more confusion on the part of the […]

Laws and ethical principles safeguard society as a whole and are crucial in guiding the practice of health care. The important role that these disciplines play can be seen clearly in cases involving highly charged issues such as organ donation, in which there is far more demand than supply; in genetic testing, in which the […]

Assignment Exercises 22-1 on page 400 Find three different financial statements that have varying capital structures. Write a paragraph about each that explains the debt-equity relationship and that computes the percent of debt and the percent of equity represented. Also note whether the percent of annual interest on debt is revealed in the notes to […]

Resource: Health Care Industry Paper Grading Criteria Write a 1050- to 1400-word paper discussing the health care industry. Address the following questions: How has health care changed in the last 10 years? What do you think will be the biggest change in health care in the next 10 years? What role do you plan to […]

Exercise 4-1: Contractual Allowances Physician office revenue for visit code 99214 has a full established rate of $72.00. Of ten different payers, there are nine different contracted rates, as follows: Payer Contracted Rate FHP $35.70 HPHP 58.85 MC 54.90 UND 60.40 CCN 70.20 MO 70.75 CGN 10.00 PRU 54.90 PHCS 50.00 ANA 45.00 For each […]