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WK 6.1 - Health Care Law and Ethics

WK 6.1 - Health Care Law and Ethics

Q Why is it important for ALL healthcare workers to understand the legal and ethical aspects of healthcare, even if they don't work directly with patients or patient information? For instance, why should a hospital janitor or the nursing home kitchen staff know about the basics of healthcare law and ethics? Why is it important for all healthcare workers to understand HIPAA? Instructions: Your initial discussion response must include references and in-text citations in APA style. (Your assigned readings must be one of your references). If your response to a classmate includes information from an outside source, it must be cited and a reference listed. However, if it your response to a classmate is fully your own thoughts and ideas, citations and a reference is not needed. Initial response of 200-250 words. Due: 11:59 PM ET Wednesday of this week Respond to two classmates (100-150 words) Due: 11:59 PM ET Sunday of this week

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Initial response of 200-250 words. Due: 11:59 PM ET Wednesday of this week Respond to two classmates (100-150 words) Due: 11:59 PM ET Sunday of this week Every legal as well as ethical aspect of healthcare is important for every healthcare worker to comprehend so that there is no exploitation or discrimination (Niles, 2020). Moreover, there can be protection obtained by every healthcare worker from any kind of fraud. There can be protesting by the exploited worker by pointing out the reason for fraud such as not providing proper rates of insurance premiums or insurance claims to the exploited worker covered with Medicaid (Niles, 2020). Fraud in not providing proper rates of insurance claims to workers covered with Medicare is also possible for which knowledge about legal as well as ethical aspects can be important (Niles, 2020).