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These highlights of the final EMTALA rule were summarized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Question: Is it true that we can violate EMTALA by not encouraging a patient to stay for treatment when he wants to leave?
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The emphasis by Milwaukee-based Aurora Health Cares training and data quality team on making sure registrars were well acquainted with the systems process for preventing identity fraud paid off recently.
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With patient safety a heightened imperative from Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and facing its own duplicate medical record problem, Truman Medical Center in Kansas City, MO, launched an initiative aimed at ensuring proper patient identification.
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Recent guidance by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transactions standards did not go far enough, says the American Hospital Association, which has urged CMS to respond to what the AHA calls critical issues that have not been addressed.
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Under the final rule for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) regulations from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), most off-campus hospital surgery centers no longer will fall under EMTALA.
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You and your facility waited more than a year for the final revisions to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), but are they really good news?
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The final version of the recently proposed changes to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) takes effect Nov. 10.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published proposed payment rates for hospital outpatient services, effective Jan. 1, 2004, and new rates for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), effective Oct. 1, 2003.
