CMS implements final EMTALA rule
Medical Staff Leader Connection, August 11, 2003
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has come through on its promise to lighten hospital's obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). In a final rule, CMS offers hospitals "common-sense improvements" designed to ensure that emergency departments and specialty physicians are able to care for patients who need emergency care. The rule becomes effective November 10.
Go to www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fedreg/frcont03.html to read the final rule in the Federal Register.
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