Federal Laws for MA's

What is the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

• put into place to reform the health care system by insuring more people. To eventually include prevention, wellness, and collaborative care strategies

• employers are accountable for providing a safe and healthful workplace for employees by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance

• gives patients rights over their health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive patients' private information. This applies to electronic, written, or oral health information

• federal policy that regulates the manufacture and distribution of narcotics, depressants, and stimulants. there are five schedules based on likelihood for abuse

What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)

• put into place to reform the health care system by insuring more people. To eventually include prevention, wellness, and collaborative care strategies

• employers are accountable for providing a safe and healthful workplace for employees by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance

• gives patients rights over their health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive patients' private information. This applies to electronic, written, or oral health information

• federal policy that regulates the manufacture and distribution of narcotics, depressants, and stimulants. there are five schedules based on likelihood for abuse

What is Controlled Substances Act (CSA)

• put into place to reform the health care system by insuring more people. To eventually include prevention, wellness, and collaborative care strategies

• employers are accountable for providing a safe and healthful workplace for employees by setting and enforcing standards and by providing training, outreach, education, and assistance

• gives patients rights over their health information and sets rules and limits on who can look at and receive patients' private information. This applies to electronic, written, or oral health information

• federal policy that regulates the manufacture and distribution of narcotics, depressants, and stimulants. there are five schedules based on likelihood for abuse

What is Title VII of Civil Rights?

• prohibits an employer with 15 or more employees from discriminating on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or religion

• Mandates the same pay for all people who substantially equal work regardless of sex

• forbids discrimination against any applicant or employee who could perform a job regardless of a disability. Must provide accommodations that are necessary to help the employee perform a job successfully

• Federal law requires certain employers to give time off to employees for familial or medical reasons

What is Equal Pay Act?

• prohibits an employer with 15 or more employees from discriminating on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or religion

• Mandates the same pay for all people who substantially equal work regardless of sex

• forbids discrimination against any applicant or employee who could perform a job regardless of a disability. Must provide accommodations that are necessary to help the employee perform a job successfully

• Federal law requires certain employers to give time off to employees for familial or medical reasons

What is Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

• prohibits an employer with 15 or more employees from discriminating on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or religion

• Mandates the same pay for all people who substantially equal work regardless of sex

• forbids discrimination against any applicant or employee who could perform a job regardless of a disability. Must provide accommodations that are necessary to help the employee perform a job successfully

• Federal law requires certain employers to give time off to employees for familial or medical reasons

What is Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

• prohibits an employer with 15 or more employees from discriminating on the basis of race, national origin, gender, or religion

• Mandates the same pay for all people who substantially equal work regardless of sex

• forbids discrimination against any applicant or employee who could perform a job regardless of a disability. Must provide accommodations that are necessary to help the employee perform a job successfully

• Federal law requires certain employers to give time off to employees for familial or medical reasons

The degree of care or competence that one is expected to exercise in a particular circumstance or role

• Standard of Care

• expert witness

• Res ipsa loquitur

• respondeat superior

A witness in a court of law who is an expert on a particular subject

• Standard of Care

• expert witness

• Res ipsa loquitur

• respondeat superior

A doctrine or rule of evidence in tort law that allows an inference or presumption that a defendant was negligent in an accident injuring the plaintiff on the basis of circumstantial evidence if the accident was of a kind that does not usually happen in without negligence

• Standard of Care

• expert witness

• Res ipsa loquitur

• respondeat superior