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On-call issue is focus of EMTALA panel meeting.(Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act)
Publication: Internal Medicine News Publication Date: 15-JUN-05 Author: Silverman, Jennifer
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COPYRIGHT 2005 International Medical News Group
WASHINGTON -- On-call emergency care dominated the agenda at the inaugural meeting of the Department of Health and Human Services technical advisory group on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act.
EMTALA, enacted in 1986 to ensure public access to emergency services regardless of ability to pay, requires hospitals to maintain a list of physicians who are on call to the emergency department. Hospitals have the discretion to maintain these lists in a manner that "best meets the needs" of the hospital's patients. The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 required HHS to establish a technical advisory group to review EMTALA regulation.
Although the obligation to provide the on-call list falls on the hospital, physicians assume new liability...
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