Chapter 3, Problem 3.6.1C

The Physician Self-Referral Law, also known as the “Stark Law,” generally prohibits a physician from making referrals to an entity for certain healthcare services, if the physician has a financial relationship with the entity. How can a physician get around the Physician Self-Referral Law?

What type of information/links to services might you need to provide to your client? Provide any three.

Effective healthcare organizations must consist of talented, skilled, and experienced IT individuals in leadership positions. Discuss some of the attributes required of a leader on a HIT staff.

You are a supervisor in the Health Information Services Department of a facility with a policy prohibiting secondary employment with a competitor. One of the employees you supervise is a coder who has just begun the process of repaying student loan debt. The coder has decided that she needs a second job to help defray expenses. She has been offered a position as a coder for one eight-hour shift per weekend at a doctor’s office. This doctor is a member of your facility’s medical staff. Because you addressed the issue of secondary employment in the coder’s entrance interview, she comes to you now seeking advice. How do you respond?

Irum works in a busy medical office. A colleague, Molly, makes life miserable for her and the other staff members. She is uncommunicative, abrasive, and abrupt. She works in isolation, doesn’t pass messages, and refuses to work collaboratively. Information often is not passed on, appointments are mixed up, reports are not read or passed on to the doctor, and patients blame everyone in the office.   What steps could you take to deal with this issue?

When it comes to your medical emergency management plan (MEMP), is there a recommended procedure for dealing with rented or borrowed medical devices?

what is a Legal Issue in Health Information Management.

What are the advantages of an Electronic MPI for a multi-site medical center? please no plagiarism, please

Identify at least one internal process breakdown each from the front-end, middle, and back-end workflows that could lead to a healthcare insurance claim denial.