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The New EMTALA Guidelines:
How They Affect On-Call Responsibilities

Audio CD
   Recorded May 26, 2004
   1:00 - 2:30 pm
(Eastern Time)

Faculty: Susan Lapenta & Alan Steinberg

New Interpretative Guidelines, which instruct surveyors what to look for when investigating an EMTALA complaint, were issued by CMS on Friday, May 14, 2004. These Guidelines are effective immediately.

The revised Guidelines include a number of new provisions and directions regarding EMTALA's on-call requirements. Those provisions address:

  • the ability to use non-physician practitioners to assist the on-call physician by being the first responder to the ED;
  • the use of telemedicine as a means of response by the on-call physician;
  • new directions concerning "reasonable call response time";
  • more detail on what is required when a hospital allows the on-call physician to take simultaneous or dual call;
  • the use of the ED for non-emergency testing, as well as for testing for blood alcohol, sexual assault and incarceration clearance;
  • what it means when the patient's emergency medical condition has been stabilized but the patient's underlying medical condition has not been resolved.

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