Description
Preparation-Criminal Aspects of Health Care
Conduct your own research for resources to support your discussion of the topics covered in this assignment. You will need a minimum of five current scholarly or professional resources to support your discussion.
Instructions
In a 68-page academic research paper: Criminal Aspects of Health Care
- Discuss what criminal law is, its main objectives, and the various classifications of crimes.
- Describe the criminal procedure process from arrest through trial and discuss how health care managers can mitigate risks to avoid civil and criminal liability.
- Describe five prevalent crimes that occur in the health care setting, such as health care fraud, kickbacks, false claims, tampering with drugs, Internet pharmacy, falsification of records, patient abuse, criminal negligence, manslaughter, murder, rape, sexual abuse, and theft.
- Research an actual case related to each of your chosen crimes, summarizing and providing detail on the ultimate outcome of the cases you chose.
- Discuss the role health care managers have in assuring the organizations they lead are legally compliant and what protections can be put in place to assure criminal activities are prevented within their organizations.
Paper Structure-Structure your paper using the following format.
- Title page.
- Introduction
- Section 1 Criminal Law.
- Section 2 Criminal Procedure Process.
- Section 3 Health Care Crimes.
- Section 4 Role of Health Care Managers