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You are a health information manager in a financially troubled acute care hospital responsible for coding functions. The hospital’s administration has retained an independent consultant who has promised to increase the hospital’s financial reimbursement under Medicare. The consultant recommends that your staff be more aggressive in applying diagnostic codes in order to elevate reimbursement. Furthermore, the consultant shares with you the methods that can be used to avoid detection of the aggressive coding scheme. You believe this more aggressive approach is, at minimum, inappropriate—and at worst, illegal. You have further learned that the consultant’s fee is based in large measure on a percentage of the hospital’s increased reimbursement under Medicare. Identify the ethical challenge and discuss how you would handle this situation.
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Running head: ETHICAL CHALLENGE
Ethical Challenge
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ETHICAL CHALLENGE
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The healthcare industry is prone to unethical practices just like other industries. Unethical
practices in healthcare organizations posse a great danger than in other sectors due to the
sensitive nature of the healthcare organizations. This paper, therefore, will explore the given case
and identify the ethical challenges as well as coming up with a way of solving the ethical
challenge.
Diagnostic codes in healthcare are used to translate descriptions of various wri...
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