Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

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The enduring role of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a seminal law that imposes screening, stabilization, and transfer duties on all Medicare-participating hospitals that have emergency departments. More than twenty-five years after its enactment, EMTALA continues to generate controversy over the scope and depth of its obligations on issues ranging from the nature of the screening o...

Bankruptcy, medical insurance, and a law with unintended consequences.

Congress passed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986, guaranteeing a standard of medical care to anyone who entered an emergency room. This guarantee made default a more reliable substitute for medical insurance. I construct a tractable structural model of the medical insurance market and find that repealing EMTALA would increase the fraction of the population w...

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA): what it is and what it means for physicians.

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed by the US Congress in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act (COBRA), much of which dealt with Medicare issues. The law’s initial intent was to ensure patient access to emergency medical care and to prevent the practice of patient dumping, in which uninsured patients were transferred, solely for financ...

The intentional tort of patient dumping: a new state cause of action to address the shortcomings of the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).