EMTALA Scenario Analysis - Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)

EMTALA Scenario Analysis

Write a 1,000-1,250 word paperin which you analyze a scenario using the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).

You are the administrator on call for Hospital A and are responsible for accepting and rejecting patients. You receive a call at 2:00 a.m. from Health Hospital B regarding a patient with a severed ear.

The ED physician is calling to arrange an EMTALA-qualified transfer from his hospital to yours, but the ENT physician on call at your hospital is refusing to accept the transfer, stating that the patient does not need a higher level of care.

You call your ENT on call, and he admits he has just had three glasses of wine and will not be available for about 6 hours. You electronically send him the record that Health Hospital B would send with the patient. The ENT physician advises that the ear looks salvageable and could easily be sutured in any ED. The ED physician at Health Hospital B is very nervous about the possibility of an EMTALA violation.

1.  If you decide to reject the patient, is this a violation of EMTALA? Explain.

2.  What decision will you make as the administrator? Explain.

3.  Based on this scenario, what could be implemented to prevent this type of situation from occurring in the future?

4.  Under what scenario would the Hospital A physician be concerned about an EMTALA situation?

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

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Resources provided by instructor which you can use:

Read "Frequently Asked Questions About the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)," by Fosmire (2009), located on the EMTALA website.

URL: http://www.emtala.com/faq.htm

Read "Feds Increase EMTALA Penalties against Physician and Hospitals," by Bitterman, from Emergency Physicians Monthly (2017), to complete the topic assignment.

URL: http://epmonthly.com/article/feds-increase-emtala-penalties-physicians-hospitals/

Read "Stark Law: Understanding the Rule," by Merritt (2013), located on the Physicians Practice website, to complete the discussion questions.

URL: http://www.physicianspractice.com/blog/stark-law-understanding-rule

Access the Primary Law page of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) website. Click on "2008 amendments." Read pages 48654-48657.

URL: http://www.emtala.com/law/index.html