Federal Law Requires Hospital ER's to Treat anyone with an "Emergency." Does that mean that the Federal Government has to Pay through Medicaid?

[Seymour Flops]

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

oig.hhs.gov

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), also known as the patient dumping statute, is a federal law that imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services.

EMTALA requires that anyone coming to an emergency department requesting evaluation or treatment of a medical condition, receives a medical screening examination. If they have an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide stabilizing treatment, regardless of the patient's insurance status or ability to pay. If the hospital does not have the capabilities required to stabilize the patient, the hospital must provide an appropriate transfer to a hospital that can provide the needed treatment. A hospital that has the needed specialized capabilities and capacity may not refuse to accept the transfer.

That's the law now, which ends any argument over whether illegals get Medicaid.

There is a much better way, if we have the will to change the law.

Simply require "anyone" who gets treatment to be identified through a valid and verified ID, or by giving fingerprint and DNA.

If they are illegal, collect the debt from them on pain of being deported. Even if they are legal aliens, "immigrants" who clog up our ER's and refuse to pay what they owe are by definition undesireable and should lose their legal status and be deported forthwith.

It might mean a little less money they can send home to their relatives in their country of origin, but if they get deported, they can just hand the money in person with no remittance fees.

 

[Greenbeard]

Can't see anyone objecting to submitting their DNA to a government database in order to visit an ER.

 

[sparky]

check it out>>>

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Criminal, civil or administrative legal actions relating to fraud and other alleged violations of law, initiated or investigated by HHS-OIG and its law enforcement partners.

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[justoffal]

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

oig.hhs.gov

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), also known as the patient dumping statute, is a federal law that imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services.

EMTALA requires that anyone coming to an emergency department requesting evaluation or treatment of a medical condition, receives a medical screening examination. If they have an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide stabilizing treatment, regardless of the patient's insurance status or ability to pay. If the hospital does not have the capabilities required to stabilize the patient, the hospital must provide an appropriate transfer to a hospital that can provide the needed treatment. A hospital that has the needed specialized capabilities and capacity may not refuse to accept the transfer.

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That's the law now, which ends any argument over whether illegals get Medicaid.

There is a much better way, if we have the will to change the law.

Simply require "anyone" who gets treatment to be identified through a valid and verified ID, or by giving fingerprint and DNA.

If they are illegal, collect the debt from them on pain of being deported. Even if they are legal aliens, "immigrants" who clog up our ER's and refuse to pay what they owe are by definition undesireable and should lose their legal status and be deported forthwith.

It might mean a little less money they can send home to their relatives in their country of origin, but if they get deported, they can just hand the money in person with no remittance fees.

Bingo

 

[Seymour Flops]

Can't see anyone objecting to submitting their DNA to a government database in order to visit an ER.

I'm sure some would object.

Just as I object to having to submit my paycheck to Uncle Sam for a bite to be taken out of it and THEN at the end of the year prove to the federal government that THEY took enough out. I object to being video's everywhere I go, and I object to being forced to pay for Medicaid for illegal border crossers and fraudulent assylum seekers given "a legal status" by the Biden administration.

Whoever these people are can certainly choose not to get care in the ER if they don't like giving their DNA. Their best bet would be to go back where they came from for medical care. Any country would be better than here, since Democrats and "not Democrats" claim that the U.S. has the worst healthcare system in the whole wide world.

 

[Hafar1014]

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

oig.hhs.gov

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), also known as the patient dumping statute, is a federal law that imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services.

EMTALA requires that anyone coming to an emergency department requesting evaluation or treatment of a medical condition, receives a medical screening examination. If they have an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide stabilizing treatment, regardless of the patient's insurance status or ability to pay. If the hospital does not have the capabilities required to stabilize the patient, the hospital must provide an appropriate transfer to a hospital that can provide the needed treatment. A hospital that has the needed specialized capabilities and capacity may not refuse to accept the transfer.

View attachment 1177705

That's the law now, which ends any argument over whether illegals get Medicaid.

There is a much better way, if we have the will to change the law.

Simply require "anyone" who gets treatment to be identified through a valid and verified ID, or by giving fingerprint and DNA.

If they are illegal, collect the debt from them on pain of being deported. Even if they are legal aliens, "immigrants" who clog up our ER's and refuse to pay what they owe are by definition undesireable and should lose their legal status and be deported forthwith.

It might mean a little less money they can send home to their relatives in their country of origin, but if they get deported, they can just hand the money in person with no remittance fees.

Hospitals pay for this with cost shifting. Thats why an aspirin costs 5.00

 

[MarathonMike]

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)

oig.hhs.gov

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), also known as the patient dumping statute, is a federal law that imposes specific obligations on Medicare-participating hospitals that offer emergency services.

EMTALA requires that anyone coming to an emergency department requesting evaluation or treatment of a medical condition, receives a medical screening examination. If they have an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide stabilizing treatment, regardless of the patient's insurance status or ability to pay. If the hospital does not have the capabilities required to stabilize the patient, the hospital must provide an appropriate transfer to a hospital that can provide the needed treatment. A hospital that has the needed specialized capabilities and capacity may not refuse to accept the transfer.

View attachment 1177705

That's the law now, which ends any argument over whether illegals get Medicaid.

There is a much better way, if we have the will to change the law.

Simply require "anyone" who gets treatment to be identified through a valid and verified ID, or by giving fingerprint and DNA.

If they are illegal, collect the debt from them on pain of being deported. Even if they are legal aliens, "immigrants" who clog up our ER's and refuse to pay what they owe are by definition undesireable and should lose their legal status and be deported forthwith.

It might mean a little less money they can send home to their relatives in their country of origin, but if they get deported, they can just hand the money in person with no remittance fees.

I've seen it here in Arizona for 40 years. A truck full of illegals crashes on the highway and fill up the nearby emergency rooms. Those wrecks sometimes end up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars in emergency care and hospitalization costs.