You are the finance manager in a long term care facility that is struggling to r

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You are the finance manager in a long term care facility that is struggling to remain solvent. The facility’s administrator has hired a consultant to work with you to increase Medicaid reimbursement. The consultant recommends that you be more “liberal” in coding the severity of residents’ needs to justify greater reimbursement. The consultant tells you, “everybody does it” and, “it’s an undetectable way to boost revenue”. You believe this approach is somewhere between inappropriate and illegal. You know the consultant is being paid on a commission and is an old college buddy of the facility administrator. You also recognize that your facility could soon go out of business and leave you without a job.

In a two page paper, respond to the following:

What are your ethical challenges?

What are your options?

What is your chosen course of action?

What will probably happen as a result of this course of action?

Part 1 What are your ethical challenges?
Part 2 What are your options?
Part 3 What is your chosen course of action?
Part 4 -What will probably happen as a result of this course of action?

Explanation / Answer

Answer:

1. Ethical challenges in the above discuss case is related to obeying an order which being an finance manager he or she is fully aware that it is not the appropriate way to handle the condition.

2. Your option in the current situation is discussing a matter with the higher authority who have experience in handling such situation. There is always a department who handles the legal issues in any organization you can even write a mail to them and let the higher authority knows about the current situation.

3. Your first choosen course of action is writing a mail to people who are on higher post than you and can hande the situation, by writing a mail you can achieve two things firstly you have informed your senior and secondly you have written proof with you about the conversation.

4. The most probably a meeting can be conducted where all important members of the team and higher authority can have one to one discussion, every one can put their opinion and some action can be taken either or minor or major level.

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