title: Managing impossible missions: ethical quandaries and ethical solutions.
abstract: Healthcare financial managers are confronted daily with ethical and practical conflicts, particularly with regard to meeting the conflicting and unduly restrictive laws and regulations with which their organizations must comply. Sometimes the right course of action is not clear, as an examination of the 72-hour rule, safe harbor provisions, and legal interpretations of the False Claims Act reveals. Healthcare financial managers have an ethical duty, based on healthcare codes of ethics and ethical theories, to oppose laws and regulations that put their organizations in untenable legal and ethical situations.
authors.affiliation: Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, USA. mn03@swt.edu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nowicki
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Summers
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004995:Ethics, Professional; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D005607:Fraud / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States