Search Results Search Sort by RelevanceMost Recent Policy Forum Mar 2020 What Should Health Care Organizations Do to Reduce Billing Fraud and Abuse? Katherine Drabiak, JD and Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD Upcoding and misrepresenting clinical information constitute fraud, cost a lot, and can result in patient harm and unnecessary procedures and prescriptions. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E221-231. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.221. Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.
Policy Forum Mar 2020 What Should Health Care Organizations Do to Reduce Billing Fraud and Abuse? Katherine Drabiak, JD and Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD Upcoding and misrepresenting clinical information constitute fraud, cost a lot, and can result in patient harm and unnecessary procedures and prescriptions. AMA J Ethics. 2020;22(3):E221-231. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2020.221.
Viewpoint Sep 2016 The Limits of Informed Consent for an Overwhelmed Patient: Clinicians’ Role in Protecting Patients and Preventing Overwhelm Johan Bester, MBChB, MPhil, Cristie M. Cole, JD, and Eric Kodish, MD Protecting patients rather than informed consent should be the goal when the complexity of information overwhelms patients’ decision-making capacity. AMA J Ethics. 2016;18(9):869-886. doi: 10.1001/journalofethics.2016.18.9.peer2-1609.