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Can someone advise if EMTALA governs inter-facility transfer of in-patient's. EMTALA has to be one of the most unclear regulations. Some sources say EMTALA does not apply to in-patients yet certain cases have found that it does apply, and other sources say that all inter-facility transfers should follow EMTALA for protection.
Local teaching says a hospital to hospital transfer of an admitted patient does follow EMTALA and that the sending hospital is obligated to provided medications that are needed or anticipated to be needed to provide the patients care if we do not stock them on the ambulance. There seems to be a lot of misinformation so I am doing my own research.
Local teaching says a hospital to hospital transfer of an admitted patient does follow EMTALA and that the sending hospital is obligated to provided medications that are needed or anticipated to be needed to provide the patients care if we do not stock them on the ambulance. There seems to be a lot of misinformation so I am doing my own research.