Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) 2002-2015: Review of Office of Inspector General
patient dumping settlements.
5) Emergency physicians and administrators from different hospitals should join to develop a realistic and effective protocol to facilitate inter-facility transfer and prevent
patient dumping.4
"Dumping" mostly describes bad things, however--e.g., roadside dumping, trade dumping, dumping on one's friends,
patient dumping. So "social dumping" becomes a sort of sacrilege.
Discharge of the homeless: Is it
patient dumping? Critical compliance and regulatory issues [Webinar].
Bhuiyan then traveled the intertwined worlds of American health care and debt: scores of surgeries performed without insurance, an incident of
patient dumping, and a job layoff.
During the hearing, Oliveira said employers who have no coverage often engage in "
patient dumping" and stick taxpayers with the bill.
If space aliens come and replace PPACA with the health insurance system now in place in the Alpha Centauri B Empire, that would surprise me less than if the exchanges all start on time, have a few hiccups, then work pretty well (with the occasional exchange collapse, qualified health plan insolvency and sick
patient dumping scandal).
Brown is now the plaintiff in a class action lawsuit, filed by the ACLU, that alleges "
patient dumping" on the part of the hospital.
The old supporting statement did not refer to the terms "fraud" or "
patient dumping," and it referred to the term "auditor" only in an analysis of how much the staff time spent on meeting PCIP paperwork requirements might cost a state.
Issues that will need to be addressed include HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act),
patient dumping, conflict of interest, and discrimination.
(33) The increasing media attention given to medical repatriation and its specific occurrences is beginning to mirror the media attention given to
patient dumping in the 1980s.
This is the result of a trade-off between productive efficiency, rent extraction, and
patient dumping deterrence: the effort of the hospital is distorted downward for the outliers to reduce the fixed price paid for the patients with low severity and limit the rent earned on these patients.
* A Continuum of Medical Care for the Homeless in Order to Prevent
Patient Dumping23, 2007, at A12; Cara Mia DiMassa & Richard Winton, Legal Actions Target
Patient Dumping; L.A.
To date, the program has shown that in communities where incentives are available, there has not been
patient dumping, said Francois deBrantes, national coordinator of the program.