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EMTALA
Emergency Medical Treatment & Active Labor Act, see there Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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HIPAA Compliance Handbook" covers over 150 topics covering such areas as differential treatment and EMTALA violations, required written policies, requirement of transfer of an unstable patient, and obtaining managed care authorization before the screening examination. While the hospital attempted to take the position that EMTALA applied only to those seeking treatment in its emergency room, a mother whose premature newborn (who was born and died in the hospital) alleged that the hospital made no attempt to resuscitate the newborn. EMTALA was devised to preclude such improper motives as patient "dumping"--the act of moving indigent patients from private to public hospitals when it is not medically advisable. |
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