tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2016 Issue 19

EMTALA: 7 EMTALA FAQs

Do you know when the Ophthalmology Department becomes part of the ED? What are your compliance obligations under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act? Well, if you’re a Medicare-participating hospital that offers emergency services and someone shows up at your ED, you take care of them — whether they can pay for it or not. But all things being fuzzy and complicated, what are your obligations under EMTALA, exactly? Hospital compliance expertDuane C. Abbey, PhD, dug into some of the details in a recentAudioEducatorseminar (https://www.audioeducator.com/hospitals-and-health-systems/ed-coding-billing-and-emtala-compliance-06-28-2016.html). What triggers EMTALA? A man walks into an ED...

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