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Unit 1 Discussion - Introduction and Statute
of Limitation
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Discussion: Unit 1, Due
Wednesday by 11:59 pm CT
Introduction and Statute of Limitation
Instructions
As a way of introducing yourselves to the instructor and your peers, please post the
following:
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Your name and a description of your current job. (If not employed, what are
your expectations when you complete your program?)
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What degree are you pursuing?
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A photo of yourself (self-portrait, or family, action photo)
Each state has their own statute of limitations, understanding what your state limitation
is will be very important to your professional health care career. In order to understand
this concept better, please review this information:
Please view the video “What is the statute of limitation to file a medical malpractice or
negligence claim” below and answer the following questions.
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Look up your Statute of Limitation for Malpractice or negligence in the state
you reside in.
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Share what you learned about your state’s statute of limitations to file a
medical malpractice or negligence claim.
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Could include:
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Pose a question relating to what you have learned about the
statute of limitations; answer that question with information that you
found relevant to the question.
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Relate a personal experience to the statute of limitations.
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Explain the statute of limitations to a patient in layman terms.
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Be creative.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA
format.
Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
Please review post and response expectations
.
Please review the rubric to
ensure that your response meets criteria.
Peer Response: Unit 1, Due
Sunday by 11:59 pm CT
Introduction and Statute of Limitation
Instructions
Please post 1 peer response.
In the response post, include the following:
Keeping in mind that everyone has a different opinion and working in healthcare you
cannot be biased towards your patients:
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Discuss similarities between your state’s statute of limitations and your state.
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Ask questions for clarification in your peer’s post.
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour
Please review post and response expectations
.
Please review the rubric to
ensure that your response meets criteria.
I am currently employed with Sanford Health where I do medical billing from home.
I
have been there almost two years.
I live in Worthington, MN and am the mother of 5
children.
Two of those children still live at home and my youngest is 8.
I have 3 girls
and 2 boys.
I am a veteran of the United States Navy and served for 4 years and 4
months.
I was stationed in San Diego, CA and Naples, Italy.
They were the greatest
times of my life as I learned a lot about the world and met
a lot of
different people
some whom I now call my friends.
In my current job as a medical biller, I work on
denials for claims for veterans seen for care in the community with their primary care
provider being the VA healthcare system.
It is a very rewarding and challenging job but
I love it.
My goal is to become a certified professional coder and move up in my current
position.
Right now I am an Insurance representative.
I have held previous jobs in
customer service and production but this by far is the best job as it is what I have
wanted to
do.
In the future, I would like to go back and get my associates in medical
billing and coding but wanted to start off easy at first for financial reasons as college is
expensive.
In the state of Minnesota, the statute of limitations is four years for medical malpractice.
In order for a claim to be upheld, the plaintiff must provide 2 affidavits one being Expert
Review which the attorney must review the case with an expert witness who can
validate the claims that deviation from standards of care were upheld and
that expert
witness can testify in court.
The other affidavit is Expert Identification which is a list of
all the expert witnesses that will be called and the facts and opinions of the case.
Without these two affidavits, the case may be dismissed.
The time frame for a claim
begins when care has ended. Minnesota does not have the discovery rule which allows
for extra time to file a claim for missed negligence by a physician.
Instead they have
damage rule which allows
time to start when damage from negligence occurred.
So for
example, I have an appendectomy and after the surgery I discover that an instrument
such as a scalpel was left inside of my body, the moment I started having complications
is when the time frame would begin not
from when I discovered the instrument.
I feel
like lack of the discovery phase in MN could be a problem because if the negligence
doesn’t cause damage to the patient they may not be able to file a claim and with the
costs of healthcare to remove the instrument or correct the problem can be expensive.
For wrongful death claims for malpractice, they must be filed three years from the date
of death but no more than four years when the malpractice occurred.
A child who has
experienced medical malpractice has 7 years to file up to the age of 19.
Some
interesting things, I found out about medical malpractice in the state of MN is that there
is no
cap on damage compensation like other states.
MN also does no impose
statutory obstacles on medical emergency physicians and nurses.
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