[Verified Answer]: Case Study 6.6: Ethical Decision-Making An…

Case Study 6.6: Ethical Decision-Making An inpatient coder has come to you, the director of HIM, with concerns that she has been instructed by the coding supervisor to code all bedside debridement’s as excisional. When you discuss this with the coding supervisor, she explains that surgical trays are ordered for the bedside and that physicians have been ignoring the queries requesting clarification. Instead, they orally state that the debridement’s are always excisional. Therefore, she issued a directive to the staff. 1.Use the ethical decision-making process to determine if this is an unethical situation and, if so, what Principle of the AHIMA Code of Ethics or AHIMA’S Standards of Ethics Coding it violets. 2. If it is a violation, give your opinion of what the implication might be to the coder, coding supervisor, yourself, and the organization