Emma
Evil Liberal Leftist
EMTALA | American Academy of Emergency Medicine - AAEM
The Act imposes three primary requirements on Medicare participating hospitals that provide emergency medical services.
The Act imposes three primary requirements on Medicare participating hospitals that provide emergency medical services.
- The hospital must provide an appropriate medical screening exam to anyone coming to the ED seeking medical care;
- For anyone that comes to the hospital and the hospital determines that the individual has an emergency medical condition, the hospital must treat and stabilize the emergency medical condition, or the hospital must transfer the individual; and
- A hospital must not transfer an individual with an emergency medical condition that has not been stabilized unless several conditions are met that includes effecting an appropriate transfer.