HS410 Assignments 7, 8, & 9

Unit 7 Assignment Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment: • Identify significant standards for healthcare documentation. • Understand important factors involved in regulations pertaining to paper and electronic health records. Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment: HS410-4: Compare standards and regulations for healthcare documentation. Instructions: Your boss is the Director of Medical Records at a large academic medical center. He is finding it difficult to monitor the ongoing legislative and policy changes related to Health Information Management. He has asked that you do the following: 1. Visit the website http://www.ahima.org/about/advocacy/efforts 2. Prepare a one-to-two page report highlighting the two most important items your boss should be aware of. 3. Recommend a course of action for each. Unit 8 Assignment Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment: • Identify personal ethics. • Understand professional codes of ethics. • Ensure personal and professional codes of ethics are in synch with organizational ethics. Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment: HS410-5: Integrate personal and professional ethics to achieve organizational goals. Instructions: You are the finance manager in a long term care facility that is struggling to remain solvent. The facility’s administrator has hired a consultant to work with you to increase Medicaid reimbursement. The consultant recommends that you be more “liberal” in coding the severity of residents’ needs to justify greater reimbursement. The consultant tells you, “everybody does it” and, “it’s an undetectable way to boost revenue”. You believe this approach is somewhere between inappropriate and illegal. You know the consultant is being paid on a commission and is an old college buddy of the facility administrator. You also recognize that your facility could soon go out of business and leave you without a job. In a two page paper, respond to the following: What are your ethical challenges? What are your options? What is your chosen course of action? What will probably happen as a result of this course of action? Requirements: • 2-3 pages in length (not including cover and reference pages) • A minimum of three outside resources (one of these resources can be your textbook) • Your paper should be formatted according to APA(6th or 7th edition), include a proper introduction, appropriate headings, and conclusion. Unit 9 Assignment Unit outcomes addressed in this Assignment: • Understand organizational management principles. • Apply organizational skills to healthcare settings. Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment: HS410-6: Evaluation and apply organization and management principles in healthcare settings. GEL-1.02: Demonstrate college-level communication through the composition of original materials in Standard English. Instructions: Health care providers, managers, and administrators are faced with a variety of ethical issues. These issues range from right to life and abortion to right to die and physician assisted suicide. For this Assignment you will write an APA style paper addressing common ethical issues found in health care. Your paper should clearly identify a minimum of three ethical issues. Using the ethical decision making process located in Chapter 4 analyze each of the ethical issues you have identified. Requirements: • 3–5 pages in length (not including cover and reference pages) • A minimum of three outside resources (one of these resources can be your textbook) • Your paper should be formatted according to APA (6th or 7th edition), include a proper introduction, appropriate headings, and conclusion.