Ethical Issues with Medical Funded Organ Transplants Using...

Ethical Issues with Medical Funded Organ Transplants Using Medicare Angela K. Bettis Mountain State University Spring 2012 This paper is going to focus on the importance of getting a better way for Medicare to handle the needs of transplant patients. The current situation isn’t a good one. The patients are the ones that suffer while the medical insurance companies and centers keep making more and more money. This is showing to me how much of the healthcare has turned to be about that. The transplant centers are needed but there is so much red tape that they have to go through to be approved by Medicare it makes it hard for them to open. What seems like should be an easy fix sure isn’t when you look into it. The ability to†¦show more content†¦Before the establishment of the â€Å"Medicare Program; Hospital Conditions of Participation: Requirements for Approval and Re-Approval of Transplant Centers To Perform Organ Transplants,† hospitals that were accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or the American Osteopathic Association weren’t routinely checked by Medicare for compliance, â€Å"but were deemed to meet most of the requirements in the hospital conditions of participation based on their accreditation† (Medicare Program, 2007, p. 15198). The difference was that after the establishment of 42 CFR Parts 405, 482, 488, and 498 Medicare went from a passive administrator to an active administration with a stronger oversight process. It was created so Medicare would have control and influence over establishing minimum standards to protest patients’ health and safety as well as to implement oversight mechanisms to ensure that the transplant centers would provide quality transplants and acceptable living donor care to Medicare beneficiaries. However, it does not seem adequate, as it does not fulfill and protect all peoples’ medical needs and rights especially as it creates barriers for the creation of new transplant centers in disadvantaged areas which raises the question to what can be done to resolve ethical issues that come to pass with Medicare-funded organ transplants? According to reports of Medicare funded transplant centers the establishment of 42 CFR Parts 405,Show MoreRelatedTechnology And Its Impact On The Development Of A Polio Vaccine1736 Words   |  7 Pageswide variety of life enhancing and life extending medical accomplishments. 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