Hlt 520 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

HLT 362V Week 1 Assignment Workbook Exercise 6, 8, 9, 11, 16, 27 – Latest. This is an all-inclusive guide to HLT 362V Statistics What are the frequency and percentage of the COPD patients in the severe airflow limitation group who are employed in the Eckerblad et al. (2014) study? What percentage of the total sample is retired? What percentage of the total sample is on sick leave? What is the total sample size of this study? What frequency and percentage of the total sample were st...

HLT 520 Topic 3 DQ 2 What do you see as the pros and cons of obtaining fair market value analyses on the compensation paid to physicians, especially when the market rates are benchmarked against national standards? How could this information be used in negotiating rates with physicians?

HLT 520 Topic 1 DQ 2 In this time of limited financial resources and reduced government payments for health care services, what are the ethical issues of limiting care? How much uncompensated care can hospitals absorb? Where do people with no resources go for care? What is the state’s responsibility to ensure health care services? What are the ethical considerations that should be taken into account?

Table of Contents Case 1: Oscar Insurance Company of Florida and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida 2 A Brief Overview of the Particulars of the Case 2 The impact of the case on the law and powerbrokers 2 Concerns regarding the case in the role of a health care leader. 2 Case 2: U.S et al. V Aetna, Inc. & Humana, Inc. 3 A brief overview of the particulars of the case 3 The impact of the case on the law and powerbrokers 4 Concerns Regarding the Case in the Role of a Health Care Leader ...

HLT 520 Topic 4 DQ 1 Discuss your opinion of the Stark laws, what they are designed to do, the impact of the exceptions, and whether you think they are successful in preventing unethical behavior.

Write a 1,250-1,500 word paper in which you explore decision making methods that can be used to resolve an ethical dilemma using the scenario provided in the assigned reading, “An Unconscious Patient With a DNR Tattoo.” Describe how to use the principles of ethical decision making (reviewed in this topic) to help resolve this ethical dilemma. Address the scenario to generate your conclusions about how you would proceed. 1. What are the dimensions of the ethical dilemma? 2. What are the pot...

HLT 520 Topic 2 Discussion Question 2: Since the hospital/patient relationship is considered a contract of sorts, how is it affected if the patient decides to disconnect himself from telemetry and leave the hospital for 4 hours to go score some cocaine on the street? What would you do as a hospital administrator in this situation?

HLT 520 Topic 5 Discussion Question 1: You are a hospital administrator, and you receive a call from a colleague at another hospital. Your colleague, who is a friend, informs you that he has received a demand for a stipend from the ophthalmologists who take ED calls at his hospital, and they want a sizeable raise. He asks you what you pay for that type of call, and suggests that you could both benefit by coming up with a standard rate of pay over which neither of you will go in response to phys...

HLT 520 Week 7 Assignment: Brain Death Scenario: Scenario: You are the hospital administrator and are told by your ICU unit director of a patient in the unit that has suffered serious brain damage, but is not currently meeting the criteria for complete brain death. Half of the family is insisting that the patient “wouldn’t want to live this way” and the other half is accusing them of wanting to kill the patient. Some allegations have been raised about a substantial inheritance for some...

HLT 520 Week 4 Assignment: EMTALA Scenario Analysis: Scenario: You are the administrator on call for a local hospital and you receive a call at 2:00 a.m. from another local hospital regarding a patient with a broken upper arm. The ED physician’s assistant is calling to arrange an EMTALA transfer from his hospital to yours, but the orthopedic physician on call at your hospital is refusing to accept the transfer, stating that the patient doesn’t need a higher level of care. When you ask him a...