Ethical scenario: You treated a client for 45 minutes, but your supervisors says the client is 5 minutes shy of their needed minutes for the week according to Medicare RUG level guidelines. She asks "Are you sure you didn't spend 50 minutes with them? Can't you find anything to bill 5 more minutes for? Just go down and talk to them for 5 minutes and bill for that as education or something". What ethical principle is the supervisor asking you to violate?

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Jovanni Crawford

Social Studies

7 August, 00:05

Ethical scenario: You treated a client for 45 minutes, but your supervisors says the client is 5 minutes shy of their needed minutes for the week according to Medicare RUG level guidelines. She asks "Are you sure you didn't spend 50 minutes with them? Can't you find anything to bill 5 more minutes for? Just go down and talk to them for 5 minutes and bill for that as education or something". What ethical principle is the supervisor asking you to violate?

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Roderick Berger · Answer 1

The supervisor is asking to violate the rule of justice.

Explanation:

Here in the above context, the supervisor is asking to violate the rule of justice. As according to the guidelines of RUG, doctor must spend at least 50 minutes with the client to charge the bill. Therefore supervisor asking for 5 minutes more with the client to as education or something to cover up wholw minutes.