Catalog Number : ncd1004
Title : EMTALA Update- Part 2
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 3-23-2015
Webplay Price : $ 125 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

Failure to comply and follow the federal EMTALA for all hospitals, including Critical Access Hospitals, could result in loss of Medicare and Medicaid payments. Money fines can be assessed against hospitals and physicians who negligently violate the EMTALA law. There has been increased activity in the area of EMTALA. The federal EMTALA law and the accompanying regulations are complex. This webinar is structured to make the requirements understandable with the liberal use of examples.

Webinar Objectives:

• Describe the hospital's requirements regarding a minor who is brought to the ED by the babysitter for a medical screening exam
• Discuss when the hospital must complete a certification of false labor

Target Audience:

ED Managers, ED Physicians, ED Nurses, Registration Staff, OB Managers and Nurses, Behavioral Health Director and Staff, CNO, COO, Nurse Supervisors, Nurse Educators, Staff Nurses, Outpatient Directors, Compliance Officers, Legal Counsels, Risk Managers, Directors of Hospital-Based Ambulance Services, Director of Registration, On-Call Physicians and CMO

Webinar Outline:

• Special responsibilities
• Meaning of "comes to the ED"
• Definition of hospital property
• EMTALA and outpatients
• Capacity
• Dedicated emergency department
• Inpatients and observation patients
• Medical screening exam
• Certification of false labor
• Born alive law and EMTALA
• Minor child request for treatment
• Telemetry
• When can you be on diversion?
• Parking of patients
• Helipad
• State plans and EMTALA
• Who can be a QMP?
• The Moses case
• Waiver of sanctions
• Requests for medications
• Blood alcohol tests
• Emergency medical condition
• Stabilization
• OB patients
• Transfer and transfer forms
• Behavioral health patients
• QIO role with EMTALA

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.