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Can a hospital refuse to treat you if you cannot pay the balance of your bill?
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The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), or Patient Anti-Dumping Act, requires hospitals that except federal funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to treat all seeking care from a hospital's emergency department in all states and territories of the United States. Hospitals can be fined $50,000 per violation. Hospitals with less than 100 beds can be fined $25,000 per violation.
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If a patient does not have insurance and can't afford the surgery can the hospital refuse them?
Yes. While an emergency room can not refuse to treat anyone, a hospital is not obliged to provide non emergency surgery.
Can a Dr. refuse to treat a patient?
If it is not your family doctor, then yes. Most of the time it depends on what is wrong with you. For instance if you go to the hospital with a broken bone, they can't refuse to treat you. They have to treat you because it's a relative emergency. If you go to a doctor who isn't your family doctor because you have a cold, then they could possibly refuse to treat you.
Can a hospital refuse treatment based on recent cancel insurance?
A hospital is obligated to treat you. However, the cost of the treatment will increase if you cancelled your insurance.
Can a dental office refuse to treat a patient that has a past due balance?
Certainly. They are a business and have no obligation to allow anyone more credit. Most hospital emergency rooms are required to treat people with serious injuries only because they receive government funding. Your dentist probably does not and your dental treatment is probably not life threatening.
Can a dentist refuse to treat you?
If the dentist can demonstrate that he/she is not qualified to provide the proper service needed by someone with a particular disability, it is legal. For example, if a person required sedation, and the dentist was not trained in sedation, he could refer the patient to someone that was qualified. If the patient required care be provided in a hospital setting, and the dentist did not have hospital privileges, he could refuse. On the other hand, if the patient simply arrives in a wheelchair, the dentist cannot refuse to treat on that basis alone. All dental offices are required by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) to be wheelchair accessible.
If a county hospital in Texas does not carry a cerain medication can they refuse emergency care?
No hospital can refuse to offer emergency care per se, under EMTALA ( a law). However, a hospital that cannot treat a given disorder, either because they lack the requried expertise on site, the right equipment, and/or the right medication, can require the patient be transferred to another facility. They can't just dump you -- they need to assist in maintiaining your health until they can effectively make the transfer.
Can a hospital refuse to remove a bug from your ear due to lack of health insurance?
A hospital cannot turn anyone away from the emergency room, without first determining what is wrong with you. Under federal rules called Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), the hospital has to screen and treat you whether you have insurance or not. The treatment required, however, only needs to address your immediate, emergency needs. So, for example, the hospital would have to treat you for a heart attack but would not have to arrange a heart transplant for you. Removing a bug certainly seems like a simple operation that would be part of the emergency room care. But if the bug's presence was not causing a medical emergency, and would require surgery, it is possible that the hospital could refuse to do it.
What is a antonym for polyclinic?
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go to hospital
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Go to the hospital
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how we treat live stock in balancesheet
If you weren't at a hospital and you knew you had meningitis how would you treat this?
you die from it, so go to a hospital
