HIPAA Violation Howard University Hospital security breach Jan 25, 2012 The costs of a healthcare breach Data breaches cost the healthcare industry $6 billion per year. The total economic impact of medical identity theft is $30.9 billion annually, up from $28.6 billion in 2010. Healthcare firms spend about $1 million per year, per firm, on data breaches. Howard University Hospital Nonprofit institution. It is a general medical and surgical hospital in Washington, DC, with 266 beds.
The author of the article goes on to say that people in the US are sentenced to do time for crimes that would not produce such a sentence in other countries. According to another article in the New York Times (2008), states spend close to ten percent of their budget on corrections (Liptak &, 2008). In 2007 alone, states spend close to $45 million tax dollars. Not only is simply housing an inmate costly, but healthcare also provides a financial burden. In 1998, the states paid a little over seven dollars a day per inmate for healthcare (Kinsella, 2004).
Allergan Inc. is a big company in the pharmaceutical industry and was involved in this unethical behavior making millions of dollar without thinking in the wellbeing of the society. To resolve this case Allergan has to admit the unethical issue and collaborate to advice the society about the issue. Then take out of the market all the promotions about the product. Then apologize to the consumers and paid the price to help solve the issue. Drugs and medicine are very sensitive products that can killed people if there are not control and approved to
Yet thousands of people die each year or escalates billions of debt to the health care system in the U.S. annually to fight them. According to the CDC these types of infections can be identified and isolated by cultures and laboratory testing. But to aid in helping battle the infections throughout the healthcare industry The Joint Commission has place accreditation requirements and various tools to reduce the infection rates in the healthcare field. Integration of Central Line Catheter Purposes
The U.S. performs worse on life expectancy and infant mortality (Edmonds, Molly, 10 September, 2009). An American Citizen pays more for health care, but has fewer doctor appointments each year than citizens of other countries. Molly Edmonds states, “When an American citizen spends the night in the hospital, it costs 5.6 times more than it would cost a person in Japan” (10 September, 2009, p. 2, para 2). So, when comparing hospital stays to other countries, the United States charge more for hospital
Jacques Roy and six others from North Texas were indicted in the largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. history (CBS DFW). Dr. Roy and the others have been accused of cheating almost $380 million from Medicare and Medicaid between January 2006 and November 2011 (CBS DFW). He owned and operated Medistat Group Associates, an association of healthcare providers that provided home health certifications and performed home visits. Home health certifications are needed prior to Medicare paying for these services. According to court documents, between January 2006 and November 2011, Medistat certified, “more than 11,000 Medicare beneficiaries for home health services and had more patients than any other medical practice in the United States”.
healthcare system is expensive. Politicians and insurance companies claim that America has the best healthcare system in the world but the fact is that 42.6 million people in the U.S. currently are without health insurance, which slaps these blind fools in the face who think that American healthcare is the best out there (Maine). How can US citizens rely on such a system of healthcare? In 1998 the infant mortality rate in the U.S was 7.2 infant deaths per 1,000 live births (Maine). Although this number is pretty low, US is still ranked highest among countries based on infant mortality rates within the OECD countries.
Aakash Patel Dr. Richard Scotch Sociology 4372 12/10/14 Why haven’t we made a change? America has the best doctors and the best medical facilities, but the overall health care system is ranked pretty low. The country does not take full advantage of the resources that we have due to a broken health care system in the country. T.R. Reid shows that other countries has a lot better health system than does the USA and we could learn from them.
According to the Census Bureau, 43.6 million Americans had no health insurance in 2002. American expansive healthcare system got thousands of Americans to bankruptcy each year. First we must know what we need to change in our expansive healthcare system, is it over priced healthcare services by doctors and hospitals? Is it expansive drugs? Is it the expansive compensation of malpractice law suits?
EMTALA is an unfunded federal mandate. This mandate for universal access shifted the cost to the hospitals. Hospitals and physicians risk substantial legal and financial penalties for violations of the mandate, with consequences as extreme as revocation of a hospital’s Medicare provider agreement (Diaz-Vickery, Sauser, & Davis, 2013). According to the American College of Emergency Doctors (ACEP) under EMTALA the emergency department has the only mandate to provide healthcare. A 2009 ACEP survey on the financial crisis stated, 66 percent of emergency physicians polled have seen an increase of uninsured patients in their emergency departments during the current financial