EMTALA: The Final Rule and
Regulations Audio CD
Recorded September 24, 2003

Faculty: Alan Steinberg & Susan Lapenta

The final EMTALA regulations were published September 9, 2003!

EMTALA never rests! While everyone else was relaxing over the Labor Day weekend, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that the publication of the final regulations (also known as the Final Rule) for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) on September 9, 2003. (Click here for the CMS press release.) These finalize the proposed regulations CMS issued in May 2002.

The compliance date for the new EMTALA rules is November 10 — just 60 days after the Final Rule is published. That gives you a short transition time to learn the new rules and educate your staff, including the medical staff.

To help meet this need, HortySpringer presents EMTALA: The Final Rule and Regulations.

This audio CD is presented by Susan Lapenta and Alan Steinberg, partners of Horty, Springer & Mattern, who have advised hospitals across the country on EMTALA and on-call issues. Susan and Alan discuss all facets of the Final Rule, including:

• The circumstances in which physicians, particularly specialty physicians, must serve on on-call lists (including discussion of community call and scheduling elective surgery or other medical procedures during on-call times);
• Clarification of the very limited applicability of EMTALA to hospital inpatients;
• The new definition of an "Emergency Department" for both on and off-campus facilities;
• The applicability of EMTALA to urgent care centers;
• Standards pertaining to "Stable for Discharge;"
• A recognized ability to use physician extenders to provide
  on-call coverage;
• The continuation of the "no delay" rule in managed care cases; and
• New rules on hospital-owned ambulances.
  

Audio CD: $225

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