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Legal Issues

This assignment contains two parts that address two different legal issues. Compile the parts into one paper for submission.

Legal Issue 1: Health Care Quality Improvement ACT (HCQIA)

Read Title IV-Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) of 1986 on the Social Security Administration Web site. Also, research how the HCQIA applies to physician credentialing. Then, complete the following:

• Analyze the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) and how it affects physicians. Note: You may also want to read about the national data bank reporting and explain how it fits into the law.

Legal Issue 2: Synopsis of General Staff Law Review

Research laws that pertain to general staff and labor relations, from federal legislation decisions to local court decisions. Then, complete the following:

• Summarize your findings of laws that pertain to general staff and labor relations.
• Analyze laws that govern general staff and labor relations issues, and how they may be in conflict, from the perspective of a health care administrator.
• Identify how these laws may be in conflict from the perspective of a patient.

Additional Requirements

• Point (length excludes reference list).
• References: Cite at least nine references. Your references may include both scholarly literature and practitioner sources.
• Written communication: Must be free of errors, scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for members of the profession of psychology.
• Writing style: APA expectations for scholarly writing include the use of third-person narrative, unless it is awkward to do so.