Revised EMTALA Interpretive Guidelines

Revised Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Interpretive Guidelines (PDF) released by CMS 5.13.04

• The interpretive guidelines serve to interpret and clarify the responsibilities of Medicare participating hospitals in emergency cases.
• They contain authoritative interpretations and clarifications of statutory and regulatory requirements and are to be used to assist in making consistent determinations about a provider’s compliance with the requirements.
• These interpretive guidelines merely define or explain the relevant statutes and regulations and do not impose any requirements that are not otherwise set forth in the statutes or regulations.