EMTALA: Avoiding the Common Pitfalls

Event Schedule by Time Zone: 
Pacific: 10 AM to 11 AM | Mountain: 11 AM to 12 PM | Central: 12 PM to 1 PM | Eastern: 1 PM to 2 PM

This presentation offers a regulation-grounded exploration of EMTALA's three core obligations — medical screening examination, stabilization, and transfer — with particular emphasis on how CMS and QIO physician reviewers interpret these duties in practice. Rather than a surface-level overview of the statute, the session goes deeper into how the pertinent regulations are actually applied when a complaint is evaluated, illuminating the gap between how hospitals often understand their EMTALA obligations and how those obligations are assessed by the people responsible for determining whether a violation occurred.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain the three core EMTALA requirements—medical screening, stabilization, and transfer—and how regulators interpret them
2. Describe how EMTALA complaints are investigated and what factors are used to determine compliance or violations
3. Recognize common situations that lead to EMTALA violations and identify documentation, decision-making, and system issues that increase risk

Speaker:

Dr. Ari Lapin, is an emergency medicine physician based in Las Vegas, currently serving as Medical Director at Acentra Health and Envision Physician Services. He also serves as a Physician Peer Reviewer for the State Medical Board of Nevada and chairs the peer review committee at Centennial Hills Hospital. Dr. Lapin earned his Doctor of Medicine (MD) from the University of Maryland School of Medicine at a BA in Physics at Yeshiva University.

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