GCU HLT520 2020 August Week 5 Discussion (dq1+dq2) Latest

HLT520 Legal and Ethical Principles in Health Care

Week 5 Discussion

DQ1 As a hospital administrator, 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 sizable 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 physician demands. It could save your hospitals $300,000 to do this. What is your response, and what is the rationale for it?

DQ2 Discuss the importance of ethical business practices. Do you think that hospitals who engage in group purchasing organizations are engaging in a form of price-fixing? Justify your reasoning.