The National Women’s Law Center, which said in a statement that it filed the initial EMTALA complaint on behalf of Mylissa Farmer, identified the hospitals as Freeman Hospital West of Joplin ...

CMS releases EMTALA guidance: 5 takeaways CMS released new EMTALA guidance June 27 that reaffirms the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which was passed in 2002, according to JD Supra . Advertisement ...

In early 2024, CMS launched a comprehensive effort to improve public understanding of EMTALA and streamline the complaint process. This initiative resulted in: 1.

The June 4, 2019, Memo, QSO-19-14-Hospitals, CAHs (the June 4 Memo), provides guidance to enrolled hospitals and critical access hospitals regarding the timing of the EMTALA survey process set ...

The decades-old EMTALA process has received fresh attention given the surge of patient complaints about denied emergency abortions following the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v.

The court also determined that the Biden administration did not follow the proper rulemaking process when issuing its 2022 EMTALA guidance. Anti-abortion advocates celebrated the ruling, ...

In early 2024, CMS launched a comprehensive effort to improve public understanding of EMTALA and streamline the complaint process. This initiative resulted in: 1.

For this reason, several hospitals and health systems recently requested temporary, emergency waivers of their EMTALA obligations to facilitate off-campus drive-through COVID-19 testing sites.