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Envision Healthcare and Out-of-Network Billing

The Envision Healthcare (EVHC) case examines the operations of one of EVHC’s divisions, EmCare, a national physician services outsourcing company. The case describes EmCare’s controversial use of out-of-network billing for a significant share…

Glaxosmithkline in China (Parts A, B, & C)

Four GlaxoSmithKline employees were accused of bribing Chinese health care workers to prescribe the company’s drugs. The accusations brought to light the questionable incentive structures of the Chinese health care system and the pressure on…

Who Owns Your Story?

This case uses a role play simulation to illustrate ethical implications when research practices violate cultural taboos and norms. In Who Owns Your Story? the Trilanyi – a fictional Native American tribe based on a real community that is not…

Medical Tourism at Mountain Health Insurance Company

In July 2016, Jennifer Brown, a graduate student at Southwest State School of Public Health, had been asked to staff an Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) meeting at Mountain Health Insurance Company, a large, regional nonprofit health insurance company where…

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