Definitions
This type of exam is a process, not a moment, and determines whether an emergency medical condition exists.
What is a Medical Screening Exam (MSE)?
A patient requires what after informing staff they are leaving after registering.
Withdrawal of Request for Medical Screening Exam.
If a patient arrives inappropriately transferred, this government agency must be notified.
What is CMS or the State Agency?
Before the medical screening exam, staff may not ask for this, even if the patient brings it up.
What is information about cost or insurance/payment?
A person making suicidal or homicidal statements is considered to have this type of emergency.
What is a psychiatric emergency?
This log must track every individual who presents anywhere in the hospital for emergency services?
What is an Central Log?
What is five years?
This certification must describe the benefits and risks of moving an unstable patient.
What is a transfer certification?
This action is prohibited if it delays an MSE: seeking approval from this payer group.
What is the patient’s insurance company?
A receiving hospital cannot consider this personal factor, such as where the patient lives, when deciding whether to accept a transfer.
What is the patient’s proximity/home location?
Surveyors must be able to see this document “in a timely manner” upon request.
What is the central log?
This must be visible from 20 feet and must not mention copays or insurance requirements.
What is EMTALA-required signage?
A hospital may refuse an EMTALA transfer only if they lack capability or this.
What is capacity?
Posting signs about copays or financial responsibility in triage or registration violates this federal act.
What is EMTALA?
Staff who report good-faith EMTALA concerns are protected from this type of reaction by the hospital.
What is protection from retaliation?