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Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)

Q: Can a hospital emergency room refuse to traet me if I'm uninsured?

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Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)

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Passed in 1986, EMTALA (the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) requires hospitals in the US to provide emergency medical care for anyone in need, regardless of race, ethnicity or citizenship.

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Texas updated its medical liability laws, and the rights of people to bring a suit against a hospital and or doctor in 1977; there were no laws established (that are still public) that required medical treatment.

Please note: the Emergency medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (a Federal Law) was passed in 1986 that requires ALL hospitals to provide emergency medical treatment.

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Passed in 1986, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is "the antidumping law." It is referred to as the "COBRA antidumping law" because it prohibits hospitals from improperly transferring or "dumping" emergency patients from one hospital to another as a result of a patient's inability to pay.

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If you present as an Emergency admission, American hospitals must treat you as specified under EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act). If you do NOT present as an emrgency admit, you may or may not get treated. Your chances of entering as an emergency case increase if you are brought into an Emergency Room and/or come in via ambulance.

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