Tag Archive for ‘Health Care’
Taking Care of Bottom-Rung Employees is Good Business
The results of the six-year study surprised even its authors. They expected to find that, yes, you could provide bottom-rung employees with benefits and still be profitable. Instead they found that you should provide such benefits because doing so increases profits.
WellCare Director Resigns, Questions Accounting Oversight
In a rare public display of boardroom in-fighting, a Harvard Business School professor and health care expert resigned from the board of WellCare Health Plans Inc., asserting that the company’s accounting systems were in need of greater oversight and that some board members had conspired to undercut her authority and force her from the board.
Medical Groups Set New Ethics Code for Dealing with Industry
The code provides guidance “on appropriate interactions with for-profit companies in the health care sector,” and seeks to ensure that societies’ interactions with companies “are independent and transparent.” Thirteen medical societies have already formally adopted the code.
WWYD: When Debt Collection Over-Reaches
Another real-life Business Ethics case study: It wasn’t a story Roger Harris relished seeing on the front page of the local paper. As communications director for a non-profit group of hospitals that prided itself on serving charity cases, he winced as he read. Elaine Peters, an 82-year-old living on Social Security, had seen half her monthly income vanish without her permission – garnished from her checking account by the hospital’s collection agency.
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