Recent EMTALA Enforcement Actions Underscore Hospital Obligations
Published: 05/08/2023
Sources:
- Department of Health and Human Services,
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
- Rural Emergency Hospitals,
- Critical Access Hospitals,
- Hospitals
In a recent letter to hospital and provider associations across the country, the Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services underscored that it is a health care provider’s professional and legal duty to offer necessary stabilizing medical treatment to a patient who presents to a covered emergency department and is found to have an emergency medical condition (or, if appropriate, to transfer them).
Underscoring the seriousness with which the agency is evaluating potential EMTALA violation…
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