Fixing EMTALA: What's wrong with the patient transfer act

Journal of Public Health Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-347

  Weiss, Larry D ^a   Martinez, Jorge A ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COURT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; LABOR; LAW; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT RIGHT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POLITICS; PUBLIC HOSPITAL;

EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT AND ACTIVE LABOR ACT 1986; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; LEGAL APPROACH;

EMERGENCY TREATMENT; PATIENT TRANSFER; POLICY MAKING; REFUSAL TO TREAT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032883331     PISSN: 01975897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3343405     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd (1994). (Some authors in the medical literature refer to the Act as "COBRA," as Congress included EMTALA in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986.)
2. H.R. Rep. No. 241, 99th Cong., 1st Sess., reprinted in 1986 U.S.C.C.A.N., 726-28.
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10. 42 C.F.R. § 489.24(f) (1995).
11. 59 Fed. Reg. 32092 (1994).
12. 63 Fed. Reg. 67486 (1998).
13. E. g.: Eberhardt v. City of Los Angeles, 62 F.3d 1253, 1256 (9th Cir. 1995).
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15. Loss v. Song, 1990 WL 159612 (N.D. 111. 1990).
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17. Smith v. Richmond Mem. Hosp., 416 S.E. 2d 689 (Va. 1992).
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22. Correa v. Hosp. San Francisco, 69 F.3d 1184, 1192-93 (1st Cir. 1995).
23. Repp v. Anadarko Mun. Hosp., 43 F.3d 519, 522 (10th Cir. 1994).
24. Holcomb v. Monahan, 30 F.3d 116, 117 (11th Cir. 1994).
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26. See e.g., Power v. Arlington Hosp. Ass'n, 42 F.3d 851 (4th Cir. 1994).
27. Roberts v. Galen of Virginia, Inc., in F.3d 405 (6th Cir. 1997).
28. See e. g., Brooks v. Maryland Gen. Hosp., 996 F.2d 708, 711 (4th Cir. 1993).
29. Power v. Arlington Hosp. Ass'n, 800 F. Supp. 1384 (E.D. Va. 1992), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 42 F.3d 851 (4th Cir. 1994).
30. Green v. Touro Infirmary, 992 F.2d 537, 539 (5th Cir. 1993).
31. Owens v. Nacodoches County Hosp., 741 F. Supp. 1269, 1280 (E.D. Tex. 1990).
32. 42 U.S.C.A. § 1395dd (West 1996). (The annotated statute lists over 50 amendments, most of which are insubstantial.)