Organizational Responsibility
Currently, health care fraud and abuse is an issue that affects everybody in our country costing tens of billions of dollars per annum. This duplicitous misdeed is committed when mendacious people and providers submit fictitious or misleading information to make a profit. “Fraud and abuse in the health care system has an enormous adverse impact on health care quality, and safety, while also imposing higher cost on consumers, employers, and taxpayers” (Fighting Health Care Fraud and Abuse, 2004-2014). Health care fraud and abuse can also cause gravely harm to individuals who are obtaining needless, or inapt medicinal services. In this paper, I will identify and describe a heath care news situation involving health …show more content…
She was sentenced to less than ten years in a federal prison and was ordered to pay back up to $9 million in restoration. While taking on the role as owner and manager at the clinic, Ovespian, was falsely prescribing high-priced medications and retailing those medications back to drugstores through black market. These medications were billed over and over again to the government. “Ovespian generated thousands of bogus prescriptions for patients who were usually low-income beneficiaries of Medicare and Medi-Cal and did not need the drugs” (Mikailian, 2014). Ovespian would have patients to go and have the prescriptions filled and take them back to the clinic. Patients that returned the medication were given a hundred dollars. The bogus prescriptions were signed in advanced by “Dr. Kenneth Johnson, an accomplice, and filled out by Ovespian’s mother-in-law, Nuritsa Grigoryan” (Mikailian, 2014). Ovespian’s health care scheme lasted from 2009-2011, during the time that the federal and state programs were billed millions of dollars and paid more than 9 million to pharmacies based on the thousands of assertions submitted as part of the scheme that Ovespian coordinated. In court Ovespian, Dr. Johnson, Grigoryan, and Ovespian’s brother were all found guilty on a number of charges. It was reported that this was one of the biggest conspiracies …show more content…
“The first component of structure is governance-some person or groups have to make the decisions within the organization” (Organizational Structure: An Overview, 2014). Another component of structure is having rules and guidelines specifying how the organization is managed. Along with organizational structure and governance organizational culture holds its importance within an organization as well. Ultimately, the culture is the temperament of the organization. “Culture is comprised of the assumptions, values, norms and tangible signs of organizations members and their behaviors” (McNamara, n.d.). Culture within an organization is vital and it one of the many elements that determines whether an organization will succeed or fail. Organizational culture and organizational structures has a close relation. For example, if the culture within an organization needs to be changed, to do this there must be changes with the organizational structure. Along with organizational structure, governance, and culture it is also important to touch on the subject of social responsibility. “Being socially responsible means that people and organizations must behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social, cultural economic and environmental issues” (What is Social Responsibility, 2014)? All organizations should have a social conscience and be dedicated to their social responsibilities. Also,
Currently, health care fraud and abuse is an issue that affects everybody in our country costing tens of billions of dollars per annum. This duplicitous misdeed is committed when mendacious people and providers submit fictitious or misleading information to make a profit. “Fraud and abuse in the health care system has an enormous adverse impact on health care quality, and safety, while also imposing higher cost on consumers, employers, and taxpayers” (Fighting Health Care Fraud and Abuse, 2004-2014). Health care fraud and abuse can also cause gravely harm to individuals who are obtaining needless, or inapt medicinal services. In this paper, I will identify and describe a heath care news situation involving health …show more content…
She was sentenced to less than ten years in a federal prison and was ordered to pay back up to $9 million in restoration. While taking on the role as owner and manager at the clinic, Ovespian, was falsely prescribing high-priced medications and retailing those medications back to drugstores through black market. These medications were billed over and over again to the government. “Ovespian generated thousands of bogus prescriptions for patients who were usually low-income beneficiaries of Medicare and Medi-Cal and did not need the drugs” (Mikailian, 2014). Ovespian would have patients to go and have the prescriptions filled and take them back to the clinic. Patients that returned the medication were given a hundred dollars. The bogus prescriptions were signed in advanced by “Dr. Kenneth Johnson, an accomplice, and filled out by Ovespian’s mother-in-law, Nuritsa Grigoryan” (Mikailian, 2014). Ovespian’s health care scheme lasted from 2009-2011, during the time that the federal and state programs were billed millions of dollars and paid more than 9 million to pharmacies based on the thousands of assertions submitted as part of the scheme that Ovespian coordinated. In court Ovespian, Dr. Johnson, Grigoryan, and Ovespian’s brother were all found guilty on a number of charges. It was reported that this was one of the biggest conspiracies …show more content…
“The first component of structure is governance-some person or groups have to make the decisions within the organization” (Organizational Structure: An Overview, 2014). Another component of structure is having rules and guidelines specifying how the organization is managed. Along with organizational structure and governance organizational culture holds its importance within an organization as well. Ultimately, the culture is the temperament of the organization. “Culture is comprised of the assumptions, values, norms and tangible signs of organizations members and their behaviors” (McNamara, n.d.). Culture within an organization is vital and it one of the many elements that determines whether an organization will succeed or fail. Organizational culture and organizational structures has a close relation. For example, if the culture within an organization needs to be changed, to do this there must be changes with the organizational structure. Along with organizational structure, governance, and culture it is also important to touch on the subject of social responsibility. “Being socially responsible means that people and organizations must behave ethically and with sensitivity toward social, cultural economic and environmental issues” (What is Social Responsibility, 2014)? All organizations should have a social conscience and be dedicated to their social responsibilities. Also,