Ethics for medical group managers: patient-centered or bottom-line?
Many physicians hire financial directors and accountants to manage their bottom line. While most of us had courses in financial and operations management, ethics was not a major part of the curriculum. This professional paper will define several ethical theories. After applying these to three moral issues--marketing, fee setting and rationing--it will outline a values clarification plan and finally will conclude by providing a framework for making moral decisions, realizing, of course, that the study of ethics offers no right or wrong responses.
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Chattanooga Heart Institute, Tennessee 37404, USA.
D000329:Advertising; D004989:Ethics; D005251:Fees, Medical; D006123:Group Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States