Question

Section 1: Client Rights and Informed Consent

Describe the informed consent process and how it protects client rights. Include the following in this section of your paper:

Billing

Right to privacy

HIPAA compliance

Compliance with authority/or oversight requirements for incorporating informed consent into practice

Answer 1

• permission granted in full knowledge of the possible consequences, typically that which is given by a patient to a doctor for treatment with knowledge of the possible risks and benefits.

• information to allow for an informed decision about participation in the clinical investigation.

• facilitating the potential participant's understanding of the information.

• an appropriate amount of time to ask questions and to discuss with family and friends the research protocol and whether you should participate.

• obtaining the potential participant's voluntary agreement to participate.

• continuing to provide information as the clinical investigation progresses or as the subject or situation requires.

• Consent is the basis for privacy protection around the world. Data protection laws around the world secure the personal privacy of data subjects by insisting that anyone who collects or uses personal data must only do so with the express consent of the subject.

• Researchers have found that implementation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule is having a negative impact on clinical research. This impact traces, in part, to many research institutions complying with HIPAA by adding lengthy, complex language to their research consent documents.

• hospitals and physicians regularly charge uninsured patients and patients receiving care outside their health-plan networks far more what most health insurers pay and far more than their actual costs. There is intervention taken that offers a useful legal and ethical mechanism for handling these troubling problems in health care billing.