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EMTALA's provisions apply to all patients, not just to Medicare patients. [4] [5] The cost of emergency care required by EMTALA is not covered directly by the federal government, so it has been characterized as an unfunded mandate. [6] In 2009, uncompensated care represents 55% of emergency room care, and 6% of total hospital costs. [7]
The federal law, called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, requires doctors to stabilize or treat any patient who shows up at an emergency room. Here’s a look at the history of EMTALA, what rights it provides patients and how a Supreme Court ruling might change that.
Simply put, EMTALA requires emergency rooms to offer a medical exam if you turn up at their facility. The law applies to nearly all emergency rooms — any that accept Medicare funding.
In the U.S., the federal government does not guarantee universal healthcare to all its citizens, but publicly funded healthcare programs help to provide for the elderly, disabled, the poor, and children. [37] The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or EMTALA also ensures public access to emergency services.
The Hospital Survey and Construction Act (Pub. L. 79–725, 60 Stat. 1040, enacted July 13, 1946), commonly known as the Hill–Burton Act, is a U.S. federal law passed in 1946, during the 79th United States Congress.
There were a number of different health care reforms proposed during the Obama administration.Key reforms address cost and coverage and include obesity, prevention and treatment of chronic conditions, defensive medicine or tort reform, incentives that reward more care instead of better care, redundant payment systems, tax policy, rationing, a shortage of doctors and nurses, intervention vs ...
That would be very appropriate. It also could use some work explaining the requirements of the act, giving more of the body of the article to the act itself instead of problems related to it. Right now it reads as an article about what is wrong with EMTALA. I'll see what I can do about that later. 152.16.188.107 00:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
A federal law known as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) "requires most hospitals to provide an examination and needed stabilizing treatment, without consideration of insurance coverage or ability to pay, when a patient presents to an emergency room for attention to an emergency medical condition." [5]