The following is a presentation of medical coding ethics and how one can incorporate them into an upstanding career as a professional medical coder. Ethics will be defined and the adopted code of ethics of two certification organizations will be discussed‚ including relevance to coding professionals and how you can incorporate them into your career. First the definition of ethics. It can be viewed in many ways but primarily it is a set of rules and guidelines in which a person is expected to conduct
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Fried Pataters Mr. Hahn Phil 2310 10 May 2010 Virtue Ethics and Ethics of Care Aristotle and Rita Manning both have different theories when it comes to ethics. Aristotle uses virtue ethics to answer questions about morality whereas Manning uses what is called ethics of caring to do the same thing. Virtue ethics claims people’s actions aim towards the highest good of happiness. From happiness‚ moral virtue stems from reasons governing the desires of the soul. Manning on the other hand believes
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confidentiality in the health care systems and how to protect and prevent it from landing in the wrong hands. Many patients and clients does not feel like their medical health and conditions are been kept safe in their health providers care. So many security bleach has happen in numerous hospital across the country that has put patients‚ workers and families at risk due to lack of security in the system. Even with computer electronics in most hospital patient medical information are still
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Violations of HIPAA Angela Void Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted on June 17‚ 2014‚ for Susan Finneman’s Medical Law and Ethics class. Violations of HIPAA Helene Michel‚ out of Hicksville‚ NY the owner of Medical Solutions Management Inc.‚ medical supply company‚ according to PHIPrivacy.net‚ was convicted of $10.7 million Medicare fraud and wrongful disclosure of private patient information in September. Michel was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison
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chose Medical Coding Specialist that is my specific Career choice. That is my major study) Medical Coding Specialist: Responsibilities; to correctly code health care claims in order to obtain reimbursement from insurance companies and government health care programs (Medicare‚ Medicaid). Depending on the type of employer‚ medical coders may specialize by department or disease‚ or even supervise medical clerks and transcriptionists. The health care professionals
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Hippa Protecting personal information should always be a priority in any medical field.The Protected health information is suppose to be secured under the Health and accountability act beginning in 1996.This act is currently known as the HIPPA Act which is designed to protect medical rights. Imagine your information shared without knowledge even though HIPPA should be already set in place to protect rights of citizens. Does HIPPA seem to fall short in securing data and protecting American rights
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multinational company‚ for this essay I shall limit my investigation to the ethical concerns surrounding the very lucrative sportswear industry‚ the sports wear supply chain‚ and how it impacts on the lives of people world wide. Sportswear marketing is now aimed at all sectors of society‚ irrespective of age‚ sex or social class‚ it has grown into a multi million dollar industry (Lancaster & Reynolds‚ 2005). Although sportswear is essential for athletes and sports players‚ millions of people the world over
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A Glimpse on Ethical Codes Health informatics in the Philippines is yet an emerging discipline. By the time I graduated and passed the Nursing Licensure Examination‚ Nursing Informatics wasn’t part of our curriculum until 2009. As a subdiscipline‚ it was relatively young at that time. I remembered during our oath taking when we pledged to the country to adhere closely to ethical and professional rules as accepted by the Nursing profession. Apparently‚ I didn’t practice my profession in the clinical
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* * Accountability in Health Care * Erika Denton * August 31‚ 2011 * HCS/475 Instructor David R. Campbell * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Accountability * Accountability in health care is important for management and legal reasons. There are different areas of accountability professional competence‚ legal and ethical conduct‚ and financial performance‚ adequacy of access‚ public health promotion‚ and community benefit
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Happy Health Medical Clinic Created by‚ Valerie Buller Happy Health Medical Clinic Introduction Happy Health Medical Clinic is a medium sized facility We are mandated under state law to abide by HIPAA and HITECH policies and do so with extreme pride. We have a hybrid‚ source-oriented filing system Health records are centralized We store patient records until death Patient Records getting new information into a patient’s record as soon as possible not duplicating medical
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