Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) 2002-2015: Review of Office of Inspector General
patient dumping settlements.
EMTALA EDUCATION: A WAY TO MITIGATE RISK
5) Emergency physicians and administrators from different hospitals should join to develop a realistic and effective protocol to facilitate inter-facility transfer and prevent
patient dumping.4
Overcrowding and possible solutions for a busy paediatric emergency department
"Dumping" mostly describes bad things, however--e.g., roadside dumping, trade dumping, dumping on one's friends,
patient dumping. So "social dumping" becomes a sort of sacrilege.
Dumping, trade as 'social
Discharge of the homeless: Is it
patient dumping? Critical compliance and regulatory issues [Webinar].
Discharging veterans: legal and ethical issues
Bhuiyan then traveled the intertwined worlds of American health care and debt: scores of surgeries performed without insurance, an incident of
patient dumping, and a job layoff.
A tale of two 'true Americans'-murderer and survivor
During the hearing, Oliveira said employers who have no coverage often engage in "
patient dumping" and stick taxpayers with the bill.
Hundreds of Thousands of Texans Without Workplace Insurance
If space aliens come and replace PPACA with the health insurance system now in place in the Alpha Centauri B Empire, that would surprise me less than if the exchanges all start on time, have a few hiccups, then work pretty well (with the occasional exchange collapse, qualified health plan insolvency and sick
patient dumping scandal).
PPACA English
Brown is now the plaintiff in a class action lawsuit, filed by the ACLU, that alleges "
patient dumping" on the part of the hospital.
5 notable GCs in the news
The old supporting statement did not refer to the terms "fraud" or "
patient dumping," and it referred to the term "auditor" only in an analysis of how much the staff time spent on meeting PCIP paperwork requirements might cost a state.
HHS focuses on risk pool waste and fraud
Issues that will need to be addressed include HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act),
patient dumping, conflict of interest, and discrimination.
From hospital to "Healthspital": a better paradigm for health care: hospitals should not simply be places where people go to get well (or, worse, where they go to die). Future hospitals could become wellness information centers and proactive partners in community well-being, says a practicing orthopedic surgeon
(33) The increasing media attention given to medical repatriation and its specific occurrences is beginning to mirror the media attention given to
patient dumping in the 1980s.
Medical repatriation: examining the legal and ethical implications of an emerging practice
This is the result of a trade-off between productive efficiency, rent extraction, and
patient dumping deterrence: the effort of the hospital is distorted downward for the outliers to reduce the fixed price paid for the patients with low severity and limit the rent earned on these patients.
Adverse selection, moral hazard, and outlier payment policy
* A Continuum of Medical Care for the Homeless in Order to Prevent
Patient DumpingNSNA's 55th Annual Convention draws over 3,000 attendees
23, 2007, at A12; Cara Mia DiMassa & Richard Winton, Legal Actions Target
Patient Dumping; L.A.
Criminal prosecutions target "dumping" of homeless patients with a mental illness
To date, the program has shown that in communities where incentives are available, there has not been
patient dumping, said Francois deBrantes, national coordinator of the program.
Effect of pay for performance on PC uncertain