{"id":5993,"date":"2019-06-03T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/emtala-on-call-physicians\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T11:00:00","slug":"emtala-on-call-physicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/emtala-on-call-physicians\/","title":{"rendered":"EMTALA On-call Physicians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n   \n\n[5 MIN READ]\nIn prior blogs, I reviewed the bare-bones of EMTALA, highlighted recent studies of EMTALA investigations, and summarized recently settled cases of EMTALA violations. In this installment, I outline the requirements of EMTALA as they relate to the role of the on-call physician.\nEMTALA was passed to prevent the dumping of \u201cnon-paying\u201d patients between hospitals. With the enactment of EMTALA, the dumping problem has diminished. The on-call physician plays a key role in patient management under EMTALA.\nThe \u201cemergency medical system\u201d depends upon emergency department access, availability of specialist physicians through the on-call roster, hospital bed and staff availability, and a referral system for tertiary or highly specialized care.\n\nSource: Hubspot\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[5 MIN READ] In prior blogs, I reviewed the bare-bones of EMTALA, highlighted recent studies of EMTALA investigations, and summarized recently settled cases of EMTALA violations. In this installment, I outline the requirements of EMTALA as they relate to the role of the on-call physician. EMTALA was passed to prevent the dumping of \u201cnon-paying\u201d patients&#8230;<a class='learnmore' href='https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/emtala-on-call-physicians\/'>Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.thesullivangroup.com\/RSQSolutions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}