Business Ethics in Healthcare: Beyond Compliance Book

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beyond Compliance, Beyond Integrity, Beyond Clinical Ethics

Part 1. Business Ethics with a Difference

1. Healthcare Business Ethics
2. Ethics Is Not Neutral: A Framework for Making Decisions

Part 2. The Organization as Caregiver

3. Ethics, Cost, and the Quality of Care
4. Patient Rights in a Just Organization
5. Clinicians and Conflicts of Interest: A Focus on Management
6. A Fair Hearing of Appeals of Denied Coverage in Managed Care Plans
7. Organizational Ethics: A Code Is Only the Beginning

Part 3. The Organization as Employer

8. Just Wages and Salaries
9. Ethics and Downsizing
10. Patient Requests for Healthcare Providers of a Specific Race or Sex
11. Conscientious Objection to Participation in Certain Treatment Options
12. Union Organizing and Employee Strikes

Part 4. The Organization as Citizen

13. Responsible Advertising
14. Environmental Responsibility and the Precautionary Principle
15. Community Serving Mergers and Acquisitions
16. Socially Responsible Investing

Part 5. Institutionalizing Business and Management Ethics

17. Components of a Business Ethics Program
18. The Organizational Ethics Committee
Notes
Index