{"id":492,"date":"2017-04-24T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=492"},"modified":"2017-04-24T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:55:20","slug":"emtala-liability-expands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2017\/04\/24\/emtala-liability-expands\/","title":{"rendered":"EMTALA LIABILITY EXPANDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">A new OIG CMP rule effective January 6, 2017 clarifies the liability guidelines for EMTALA violations. The rule affirmed that willful conduct by a provider is not required for the OIG to impose penalties for EMTALA violations and revised the definition of \u00a0\u201cresponsible physician\u201d to clarify that on-call physicians at hospitals with specialized capabilities are considered responsible physicians subject to EMTALA.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The new rule removes \u201cintent to leave\u201d as a mitigating factor, adds \u201ccorrective action\u201d as a mitigating factor and adds \u201crisk of patient harm\u201d as an aggravating factor. Because alleged EMTALA violations increasingly include allegations against the hospital and the responsible physician, a potential conflict of interest exists between the hospital and the responsible physician,\u00a0due to the temptation to divert blame by pointing fingers.\u00a0 The hospital and the responsible physician should have separate legal counsel.\u00a0 For physicians, EMTALA violation findings can become medical license disciplinary actions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new OIG CMP rule effective January 6, 2017 clarifies the liability guidelines for EMTALA violations. The rule affirmed that willful conduct by a provider is not required for the OIG to impose penalties for EMTALA violations and revised the definition of \u00a0\u201cresponsible physician\u201d to clarify that on-call physicians at hospitals with specialized capabilities are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2017\/04\/24\/emtala-liability-expands\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EMTALA LIABILITY EXPANDS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[909],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-law"],"authors":[{"term_id":909,"user_id":89,"is_guest":0,"slug":"pshofstra","display_name":"Patricia S. Hofstra","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2017\/11\/hofstrapatricia-125x150.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}