ASSIGNMENT: Ethical Challenge

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Law and Ethics are taught as separate courses in this program, but their interrelationship is inescapable. Students will select one from several ethical dilemmas and opine about the situation from a purely legal perspective. The result will be an analysis that acknowledges the ethical challenge (completion of the Ethics course is not necessary) but critically examines at the legal issues raised in the scenario. In other words, ethics looks at whether something “should” be done; the legal question is whether it “can” be done under the law. These are two different analyses that ultimately must be considered together. Your analysis should raise (and addresses to the extent possible) the pertinent legal questions for consideration. At least three peer-reviewed sources should be cited. Note that you are not expected to arrive at “the answer;” rather, the goal is to identify and analyze the challenges of being both ethically and legally compliant. Your paper should be submitted to Canvas and should be around 2 pages long and no longer than 3 pages.

Select one of the following scenarios for your analysis:

1. Your hospital has been selected to take part in a trial for a promising drug (Colocorrect) to treat a rare and fatal form of colon cancer. In initial trials, the 12-month morbidity rate declined by 80% for those receiving the drug. Quite coincidentally. your mother has developed this same form of cancer and has entered the trial at your hospital. Through a conversation with the clinical director for the trial, you learn that your mother has been placed in the control group. Given the progress of your mother's cancer, you know that this is almost certainly a death sentence for her. Of course, your mother does not know this. Indeed, in your daily visits with her, her condition appears to improve, probably because of a placebo effect. She speaks glowingly of the miracle treatment that she believes she is receiving and thanks you for getting her in the trial. What can you do? What should you do? What will you do?

2. Your Director of Pathology comes to you with an idea for a great new revenue stream for your hospital. She wants to harvest tissue from aborted fetuses for sale to medical research labs. In fact, she has lined up a lucrative contract that should help pull the hospital out of a current cash crunch. Key to the agreement is a provision that precludes notification to the parent(s) of the fetus and by which your hospital confirms its ownership. Will you do this? What difference does it make regarding the notification? What will you tell your Board to sell this project?

3. Your facility has contracted with an independent group of Emergency Room doctors to provide emergent care and a separate group of Radiologists to provide imaging services and a separate group of pathologists to provide lab services. That means that patients coming through your ER will receive a bill for you regarding use of the facility, but separate bill for emergent care, radiology and pathology. Thus, there are four different billing sources. Other than Medicare, there is no common insurance provider between the four. You are about to preside over a Board meeting that will decide the process to be followed when a patient enters the ER. Must a patient be informed of the differing groups providing care? Must a patient be informed of differing insurance requirements? If requested, will your facility provide billing services for the other groups? Besides the legal requirement(s), is there a business/economic concern here that should be considered?


Ethical Challenge Analysis: Law and Ethics are taught as separate courses in this program, but their interrelationship is inescapable. Students will select one from several ethical dilemmas presented and opine about the situation from a purely legal perspective. The result will be an analysis that acknowledges the ethical challenge (completion of the Ethics course is not necessary) but critically examines at the legal issues raised in the scenario. In other words, ethics looks at whether something “should” be done; the legal question is whether it “can” be done under the law. These are two different analyses that ultimately must be considered together. Your analysis should raise (and addresses to the extent possible) the pertinent legal questions for consideration. Note that you are not expected to arrive at “the answer;” rather, the goal is to identify and analyze the challenges of being both ethically and legally compliant.

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Ethical Dilemmas-Outline
I. Scenario 3
A. The scenario concerns a facility that has contracted three separate groups where
each group has its roles
II. Informing the Patients about the Different Groups Providing Care
A. Whether the facility to inform the patients concerning the different groups that
offering care with the hospital is an ethical situation
B. It is noble to inform the patients concerning the existence of the groups
C. In a legal perspective is that it is a must for the patients to have information
concerning the different groups offering care in the facility
III. Informing the Patient on Insurance Requirements
A. Most of the patients usually have registered with different insurance companies to
cater for their medical bills when they are sick
B. It is an ethical decision to inform the patients or their subscribers concerning the
requirements of the insurance
IV. Provision of Billing Services to Other Groups
A. Entail a process which involves submitting charges to the payers that are the third
party as well as patients


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ETHICAL DILEMMAS

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Ethical Dilemmas
Scenario 3

The scenario concerns a facility that has contracted three separate groups where each
group has its roles. One group is for emergent care, a radiologists group for imaging services and
a pathologist group for the lab services. Since they are separate groups, the patient is expected to
receive a separate bill for each group he or she receives since no common insurance company
operates through all the groups. The ethical challenge that the facility is facing is should the
patient be informed concerning the different groups offering care, should they be informed about
the insurance requirements or what is the best procedure?.
Informing the Patients about the Different Groups Providing Care
Besides the main hospital bill that an individual receives there are other additional bills
that one gets at times from the physicians such from the radiologists, pathologists and the
emergent care such as those in the scenario provided (Robert et al., 2015). In most cases, the
patients receive this additional bills before they are offered earlier notice. In such a situation, it is
essential for an individual to contact the billing office of the hospital with the official contacts of
the hospital. It is critical to consult since if an individual neglects his or her account may fall into
delinquency where it is possible to get a referral to a collection agency.
Whether the facility to inform the patients concerning the different groups that offering
care with the...


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