Question

submit a 2-3 page paper on these questions as you become a new healthcare leader:

  What are your legal obligations as a healthcare leader?

  What are your ethical obligations as a healthcare provider?

  Discuss how healthcare is changing in regards to “fee for service” vs “population health” and how the organizational strategy will need to change?

  Does price transparency support both fee-based and value-based reimbursement models?

  As a healthcare executive, what course of action would you recommend?

Answer 1

1. Legal obligations to be followed as a healthcare leader are :-

- Civil Law

focuses on legal relationships between people and the protection of a person's rights

- Criminal Law

Focuses on wrongs against a person, property or society.

- Torts

-Wrongful acts that do not involve contracts

-Failure to meet your legal responsibilities

-Can happen when a patient is harmed or injured

- Malpractice

-"Bad Medicine" or Professional Negligence

- Failure of a professional to use the degree of skill and learning.

- Negligence

Failure to give care that is normally expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in injury to another person.

- Assault & Battery

Assault - a threat or attempt to injure.

Battery - the unlawful touching of another person without consent.

- Consent

Informed Consent - permission granted voluntarily by a person who is of sound mind that has had risks explained in terms patient and or client can understand.

- Invasion of Privacy

Unnecessarily exposing an individual or revealing personal information about an individual with that person's permission.

- False Imprisonment

Restraining or restricting an individual or restricting and individual's freedom.

- Abuse

Results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish.

2. Ethical obligations as a healthcare provider are :-

- Accountability

To be answerable to oneself and others for one's own choices, decisions and actions as measured against a standard"

- Advance directive

a document that provides information about a person's desires should he or she become unable to make health-care decisions.pro-vides directions to family and health-care professionals by a person becoming ill and incapacitated.

- Autonomy

refers to self-governance, in that an individual is free to make choices about what can be done to his or her body.

- Beneficence

core principle of patient advocacy and refers to any action intended to benefit another—in other words, one's actions should always promote good

- Civil law

pertains to the rights and duties of private citizens and is enforcedthrough the courts as damages or monetary compensation.

- Code of ethics

reflects the values and beliefs shared by members, informs the public of the standards of ethical conduct for the profession, and provides rules and principles for self-regulation

- Confidentiality

means preventing disclosure of private information shared between a patient and the health-care team. Once a patient shares personal information, the nurse can use that information only as authorized by the patient

- Contract law

A voluntary agreement between or among two or more competent people

creates an obligation for a person to do or notto do something and creates enforceable rights or legal duties

- Criminal law

relates to conduct that is harmful to society as a whole as well as to anindividual victim.

- Deontology

the rightness or wrongness of an action often depends on the nature of the act rather than the consequences of the act