The document summarizes a course assessment for PLA 4522 Health Care Law. Students were asked to discuss in a 1-page written assignment what they would do as a billing coordinator if they noticed a physician billing for medical procedures that were not actually performed. Students were to outline each step of the process they would follow to address the situation in paragraph form for the assignment.

1. Program Learning Outcome and Assessment - Fall 2021
Course: PLA 4522 Health Care Law
Program Learning Outcome: Evaluate compliance of legal,
ethical, risk management, or
financial requirements.
Material: Chapter 4 – Working in Today’s Healthcare
Environment
Assessment Tool: Written Discussion Assignment
Chapter 4 Discussion Assignment - Ethics in Reimbursement
For this assignment, please consider the following situation:
As the billing coordinator in a large multi-specialty practice,
what would you do if you are
processing billing statements for patient services and notice that
one of the physicians has
entered patient charges for relatively minor procedures that
were never done?
1
. Please create an original discussion post to discuss each step
in the process you
would follow if you were confronted with this situation. Your
original post should be in

2. paragraph form and equivalent to a 1-page, double-spaced
document in length (and without
lists, bullet points, or errors related to
spelling/grammar/writing/punctuation/formatting/reference/citat
ion, etc.).