Program Learning Outcome and Assessment – Fall 2021

Course: PLA 4522 Health Care Law

Program Learning Outcome: Evaluate compliance of legal, ethical, risk management, or

financial requirements.

Material: Chapter 4 – Working in Today’s Healthcare Environment

Assessment Tool: Written Discussion Assignment 

Chapter 4 Discussion Assignment – Ethics in Reimbursement

For this assignment, please consider the following situation:

As the billing coordinator in a large multi-specialty practice, what would you do if you are

processing billing statements for patient services and notice that one of the physicians has

entered patient charges for relatively minor procedures that were never done?

1. Please create an original discussion post to discuss each step in the process you

would follow if you were confronted with this situation. Your original post should be in

paragraph form and equivalent to a 1-page, double-spaced document in length (and without

lists, bullet points, or errors related to

spelling/grammar/writing/punctuation/formatting/reference/citation, etc.).