Identification
Many health care providers work in different settings including nursing homes, labs, doctor offices, hospitals and pharmacies, among other settings. The duties they provide include research and treating illnesses and conditions.
History
There are three different laws that are related to health care provider's rights. Te laws were created to protect them from having to go against their own convictions, like religious beliefs and ethics.
Effects
There was a new section added on in 1996 by the Public Health Service Act, which offered health care providers with protection from the loss of insurance contracts and government funded programs, when the provider decides not to perform a procedure that goes against their beliefs.
Featues
Funding was rejected for local, stated and federal companies that were known to discriminate against health care providers who didn't want to perform specific procedures because of their ethics or moral beliefs (this was done in 2005 with the Weldon Amendment to the HHS's Appropriation Acts).
Misconceptions
A lot of states have laws that offer protection to health care provider's rights for having fair payments from insurers, which by law requires the provider to provide claim info to companies within a timely manner.
