Product Description

This textbook provides a unique approach to learning about and dealing with ethical dilemmas in the health care profession. There are over 115 ethical dilemmas included in this text based upon real events and covering a broad range of categories such as billing, documentation, pediatric issues, psychiatric setting, fieldwork, home health care, managed care, long-term care, and much more.

Ethics in Rehabilitation: A Clinical Perspective consists primarily of exercises that are based on events which address current issues in health care today. A very important first chapter will take a look at why ethical dilemmas seem so prevalent today, as well as looking at the changing face of rehabilitation practice. The authors look at where our sense of ethics is developed, how ethics are recognized, strategies on addressing dilemmas, and methods for analyzing them.

Features

• A checklist of the most common legal issues occupational therapists face in practice that can be confused with an ethical problem.
• AOTA and APTA Code of Ethics.
• Samples of relevant laws.
• Relevant Medicare regulations.
• Sample Licensure Laws.

A 2004 edition of Doody's Core Titles in the Health Sciences Selection!

A Brandon/Hill Selection!

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Contents

Section I: Approaches to Ethical Dilemmas

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Ethics: The Basics

Chapter 3: Legal Issues in Ethical Decision- Making

Chapter 4: Ethics and Managed Care

Chapter 5: Ethics and the Law: The Interface

Chapter 6: Analyzing Ethical Dilemmas

Chapter 7: Avoiding Ethical and Legal Dilemmas

Section II: Ethical Dilemmas: Practical Approaches

Ethical Dilemmas

Section III: Ethical Dilemma Worksheets

Ethical Dilemma Worksheets

Section IV: Appendices

Appendix A: AOTA, APTA, ASHA Code of Ethics

Appendix B: Excerpts from Sample Licensure Laws

Appendix C: Excerpts from Prospective Payment Manual Including Rules in Relation to Group Treatment and Definition of Therapy Time

Appendix D: Federal Statutes Pertaining to Medicare and Medicaid Fraud

Appendix E: Sample Child Abuse Reporting Laws

Appendix F: CHAMPUS Authorized Provider Definition Form and Federal Regulations

Appendix G: Medicare Regulation's Definition of Skilled Care in Home Care

Appendix H: Medicare Regulation's Definition of Skilled Services in Post-Hospital SNFs

Appendix I: Criminal Penalties for Fraud Against a Federal Health Care Program

Appendix J: Sexual Harassment Information

Appendix K: Independent Contractor Tests and IRS Revenue Ruling

Appendix L: Excerpt from the Health Insurance Manual for Home Health Agencies, HCFA, Fraud, and Abuse

Appendix M: Sample State Law: Prohibited Referrals

Appendix N: Florida Regulations: Use of Aides in Occupational Therapy

Appendix O: Florida Regulations: General Supervision of PTAs and Delegation to Unlicensed Personnel by the PT

Appendix P: Florida Disciplinary Rules for OT, PT, Speech Pathology, and Audiology

Appendix Q: Internet Resources for Additional Information

Appendix R: Bibliography and Additional Sources of Information

Appendix S: A Guide to Disability Right Laws

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Reviews

“With an increasing focus on ethics, both in legislation and clinical practice, this book is an excellent addition to the topic as it is tailor made for the rehabilitation setting. These authors take a complex topic and make it readable, practical and relevant to current occupational therapy practice.”

— Fern Swedlove, Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy

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About the Authors

Barbara L. Kornblau, JD, OT/L, FAOTA, DAAPM, ABDA, CDSM, CCM

Barbara L. Kornblau, JD, OT/L, FAOTA, DAAPM, ABDA, CDSM, CCM, is a professor of occupational therapy and public health at Nova Southeastern University, North Miami Beach, FL. In her private practice, she provides consulting services to business and industry, attorneys, and others. A practicing attorney, she specializes in disability discrimination and related issues. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Miami School of Law, she has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and other works on the Americans With Disabilities Act, medical-legal issues, ethics, consultation, and work rehabilitation.

Shirley P. Starling, JD, MHS

Shirley P. Starling, JD, MHS, is an attorney in private practice in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Ms. Starling received her Bachelor of Science and Master of Health Science degrees in occupational therapy at the University of Florida, and her Juris Doctorate degree at Nova Southeastern University. She has 25 years of experience as an occupational therapist in mental health and served on the faculty of the undergraduate program at Florida International University and the graduate program at Nova Southeastern University. She has provided professional and community educational programs on both occupational therapy and legal issues.

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