HCS 430 Week 4 Cindy S Portion

Human Resources
Presentation
Leslie Gabor, Aisha Little, Anne Parker, and Cindy Wright
HCS/430 Legal Issues in Health Care:
Regulation and Compliance
September 15th, 2014
William Bross

Introduction
• State and Federal Statutory and Regulatory
Enactments.
• Current Principles of Patient Consent.
• Current State and Future Trends of Physicians’
Rights and Responsibilities.
• Current Components and Implications of HIPAA.
• Current and Future Trends for Statutory,
Regulatory, and Common Law Requirements of
Confidentiality.
• Current and Future Legal and Ethical Obligations of

State & Federal Statutory
Enactments
State Statutory Enactments:
 Consent
 Confidentiality
 Informed Consent
 Implied Consent

Federal Statutory
Enactments:


Medical Patient Rights Act

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

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Uniform Anatomical Gift Act



Patient Self-Determination Act

State & Federal Regulatory
Enactments

State Regulatory
Enactments:

Federal Regulatory
Enactments:

 Right to Privileged

 Patient’s Bill of Rights

Communication
 Right to Considerate and
Respectful Care

 The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA)

 Right to Privacy

 The Patient Safety and Quality
Improvement Act of 2005

 Responsibility to take Part in their
Care

Current Principles of Patient Consent

• Understanding Facts
• Valid Consent
• Permission
• Intervention
• Consequences

Resulting Implications for the Health Care
Industry

• Organizational Changes
• Patient Care and Service Delivery Changes
• Quality of Patient Care
• Staff Roles
• Patient Outcomes

Physicians Rights and Responsibilities in
Delivery of Health Care

• Professional Competence
• Patient Confidentiality
• Honest with Patients
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Improving Access to Care

•

Improving Quality of Care

Maintaining appropriate relations with Patients

Current components and Implications of (HIPAA)
 Standardization of Transactions and Code Sets (Final rule
adopted)