Congress should ameliorate these problems through amendment of the law.Larry D WeissJorge A MartinezJournal of Public Health PolicyWeiss, L. D. and J. A. Martinez (1999) "Fixing EMTALA: What's wrong with the Patient Transfer Act," Journal of Public Health Policy, 20(3):335-347....
medically necessary abortion care. Although every state with an abortion ban hasexceptionsfor pregnancies that risk the life of the mother, these exceptions can vary and be unclear. When clinicians aren’t certain how close to death a pregnant patient needs to be to warrant an excep...
Second, because Section 1867(a) contains the MSE requirement,with the waiver, the screening does not necessarily need to constitute a full MSE by a QMP. If a patient only requests a COVID-19 test and does not clearly have an EMC, then the patient can receive just the COVID-19 test. ...
It cites a study of EMTALA transfer trends based on transfer requests to Stanford University Hospital.KaoDivisionDavidDivisionP.DivisionEBSCO_AspArchives of Internal MedicineKao DP, Martin MH, Das AK, Ruoss SJ. Consequences of federal patient transfer regulations: effect of the 2003 EMTALA revision ...
consequences of federal patient transfer regulations: effect of the 2003 emtala revision on a tertiary referral center and evidence of possible misuseemergency department (ed) use has risen steadily over the past 20 years, in part because patients are guaranteed medical attention under the emergency ...