Tuesday, August 13, 2024
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Iowa Hospital Association
Virtual
Program Description
Medicare-certified hospitals must follow CMS regulations and interpretative guidelines for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. This three-part series will focus on problematic areas of EMTALA concepts, adequacy of medical screening and on-call physician issues.
Part Three will focus on physician involvement with the EMTALA process including on-call physician schedules, on-call physician rules, when an on-call physician must appear in the emergency department and how to deal with difficult patient situations such as leaving against medical advice and leaving without being seen.
Program Objectives
- Describe on-call physician rules, including when the on-call physician must appear in the emergency department.
- Describe the Office of Inspector General’s role and recent on-call physician deficiencies and fines.
- Describe the organizational quality-improvement program role with EMTALA.
- Examine documentation requirements for difficult patient situations.
Who Should Attend
- Behavioral health and psychiatric staff.
- CEOs.
- Chief medical officers.
- Chief nursing officers.
- Compliance officers and legal counsel.
- Department directors.
- Emergency department staff.
- Nurses.
- Physicians.
- Quality improvement staff.
- Risk managers.
- Safety officers.
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