Practitioner ethics and managed care.
Mental health services provided through a managed care company cause some serious ethical concerns for providers and potentially for licensing boards. Confidentiality, record keeping, abandonment of patients, and informed consent are a few of the major issues confronting providers and the patients with whom they work. The importance of these issues for providers and the need for managed care companies and their employees to pay more attention to these ethical problems are covered in this article.
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D003219:Confidentiality / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007358:Insurance, Psychiatric / Q000592:standards; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000592:standards*; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000592:standards*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States