: Physician Assisted Suicide

    : Physician Assisted Suicide   Notes for Task 2: A.1 – Standards – must cover all three · Licensure – both physicians and hospitals must be licensed by the state where they practice. · Certification – Medicare will certify physicians for the scope of medicine they are allowed to practice and file claims for. · Accreditation – hospitals must be accredited by an entity like Joint Commission in order to participate with Medicare. A.2.a. Clinical Quality Reporting Systems · PQRS or Physician Quality Reporting Systems for physicians · VBPS or Value-based Purchasing Systems for hospitals A.2.b. Reimbursement · Medicare Part A for hospitals · Medicare Part B for physicians · Cannot balance bill anything over Allowable Fee Schedule A.2.c. Patient Access to Care (see attached articles) · Physicians Opting Out of Medicare · Shortage of PCP’s coming out of U.S. Medical Schools B.1 Role of Health Information Management Professional · Name specific HIM role · Show the effect Medicare has on that specific role