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The EMTALA Answer Book

The authoritative guide to anti-dumping laws issues facing emergency department physicians, specialists and hospitals.

Created by an emergency staff physician, The EMTALA Answer Book provides an authoritative, easy-to-access guide addressing the issues surrounding anti-dumping laws for emergency department physicians, emergency nurse managers, emergency administrators and risk managers.

The Answer Book offers practical, expert guidance to help you understand new case law and the subsequent legal risks. It clarifies the law’s most baffling terminology, alerts you to legal inconsistencies and helps you understand the implications of your decisions. It explains how to develop policies and procedures to ensure hospital and staff compliance, reconcile patient needs with managed care costs, leave a proper documentation trail and more.

Also explored are potentially problematic aspects of medical screening, treatment, transfer and other EMTALA responsibilities of hospitals from the medical perspective, providing suggestions for compliance.

Current issues addressed include:

• What constitutes a violation of EMTALA according to the Medicare Medicaid State Operations Manual
• Analysis of such benchmarks as the "One-Third Rule," used to determine whether a facility has an EMTALA obligation
• The role of the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO)
• Issues surrounding the "on-call" obligation of a hospital
• Discussion of the latest EMTALA court cases
• How EMTALA affects not only emergency physicians but on-call physicians, specialists and hospitals

Part of the Health Law & Compliance Integrated Library, The EMTALA Answer Book links to the primary source material in the CCH Health Care Compliance Reporter. The Library combines the latest information regarding Health Law from CCH and Aspen Publishers.