CMS Launches New Option for Filing EMTALA Complaints

Published: 05/21/2024

Sources:
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Relevant To:
  • Rural Emergency Hospitals,
  • Critical Access Hospitals,
  • Hospitals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a new option on CMS.gov to allow individuals to more easily file an Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) complaint. This new web resource is part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s comprehensive plan to educate the public and promote patient access to the emergency medical care to which they are entitled under federal law.  

Medicare-participating hospitals are required under EMTALA to provide medical screening ex

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