Questions and Answers of The Law Of Healthcare Administration

Explain the importance of maintaining complete and accurate records.
Discuss how the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 safeguard a patient’s privacy.
Explain the ownership of and who can access a patient’s medical record.
Describe the advantages and disadvantages of electronic medical records.
Describe whys the medical record is important in legal proceedings.
Describe a variety of ways in which medical records have been falsified.
Explain what is meant by the medical record battleground.
Discuss the legal and ethical issues involved in Roe v. Wade.
Do you agree that individual states should be able to place reasonable restrictions or waiting periods? Who should determine what is reasonable?
Should a married woman be allowed to abort without her husband’s consent?
Give two arguments for and two arguments against partial-birth abortions.
Describe the various forms of sterilization.
Do you think Roe v. Wade is an example of legislating morality? Why or why not?
Do you agree that eugenic sterilization should be allowed? Why or why not?
Describe surrogacy and the legal and ethical issues that can arise.
Describe how wrongful birth, wrongful life, and wrongful conception differ.
Discuss what AIDS is and how it is contracted.
Discuss the privacy and confidentiality issues of HIV-positive patients.
Describe how those who contract AIDS are discriminated against.
Discuss why AIDS is a reportable disease.
Discuss what steps can be taken in the healthcare setting to help prevent the spread of AIDS.
Describe how patient autonomy has been impacted by case law and legislative enactments.
Discuss the following concepts: preservation of life with limits, euthanasia, advance directives, futility of treatment, withholding and withdrawal of treatment, and do-not-resuscitate orders.
Explain end-of-life issues as they relate to autopsy, organ donations, research experimentation, and clinical trials.
Describe how human genetics and stem cell research can have an impact on end-of-life issues.
Discuss the importance of genetic markers.
Explain the reason the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act was enacted.
Describe the rights of patients as reviewed in this chapter.
Describe the responsibilities of patients as reviewed in this chapter.
Discuss why a patient’s responsibilities are as important as his or her rights.
Describe what sexual harassment is and what forms it can take.
Discuss the employment-at-will doctrine.
Explain public policies that protect employees from unlawful discharge.
Discuss under what conditions unemployment compensation can be denied to a claimant.
Describe what is meant by retaliatory and constructive discharge and how to defend a claim for unfair discharge.
Describe under what circumstances employers often discharge an employee.
Describe effective hiring practices and the importance of clear communications.
Discuss why employment disclaimers are important to the employer.
Describe the rights and responsibilities of employees.
Discuss in what ways the rights and responsibilities of patients and employees are alike.
What is the purpose of an insurance policy?
Describe the conditions of an insurance policy.
What are the primary components of an insurance policy?
What are the primary categories of a risk?
What are the distinct parts of an insurance policy?
Under what circumstances should a healthcare professional self-insure?
Should a board member have personal liability insurance coverage?
Describe what acts a professional liability policy covers, as well as the risks it does not cover.
Discuss the purpose and various titles of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA).
Describe the purpose and process of utilization review.
Describe the common models of managed care organizations.
Describe the various court rulings involving PPACA.
Why did Congress pass the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986?
Distinguish between portfolio (capital) investment and direct investment.
Distinguish between(a) a branch,(b) a subsidiary, and(c) a joint venture.
What are “performance requirements”?
What purposes are normally served by bilateral investment protection treaties?
What is meant by “collateral security”?
Why might a creditor choose not to take security for a debt?
In what way do security devices act as an incentive to repay one’s debts?
What are the principal types of security interest?
Why is a lease of personal property commonly treated as a security interest?
Distinguish between a chattel mortgage and a pledge.
What is the principal difference between a conditional sale agreement and a chattel mortgage?
How can a creditor obtain a security interest in property that the debtor does not yet possess?
What is a “floating charge”?
How is priority determined in the PPSA system?
What is the function of a “financing statement”?
What does it mean that a security interest must be “perfected”?
What is a “purchase-money security interest,” and why is it given special priority?
What allowance is made for a consumer buying goods from a seller in the business of selling those goods?
What types of loan receive special protection under the Bank Act?
How is a security interest protected under the Bank Act?
What objectives does the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act seek to achieve?
What are the functions of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, the Official Receiver, and the Trustee in Bankruptcy?
Distinguish between a bankrupt and an insolvent person.
How is a “consumer debtor” defined?
What is the difference between an assignment and a bankruptcy order?
What is the effect, in bankruptcy law, of a proposal?
Distinguish between an arm’s length and non-arm’s length transaction preference.
What is a “transfer under value”?
What special right does an unpaid seller of goods have when the buyer is bankrupt?
What is a “preferred creditor”? What are the principal categories of preferred claims?
How does a bankrupt become “discharged”?
What is the aim of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act?
What is the purpose of a “holdback” under builders’ lien legislation?
Whose interests are protected by a builders’ lien?
How do the business corporations statutes protect creditors of corporations?
Distinguish between foreign trade and foreign investment.
Distinguish between public international law and private international law.
What is meant by the “proper law of the contract”?
What are “Incoterms”? Give examples.
What documentation is usually involved in an international sale of goods?
What is the purpose of foreign exchange risk management?
How can services be exported?
In what ways do governments attempt to promote exports? Are export subsidies permissible?
What is meant by “non-tariff barriers”? Give examples.
What is dumping?
What are countervailing duties?
What is the relationship between the GATT and the WTO?

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