EMTALA Survival Kit
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Just when you think you have it all figured out, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) changes it! That's just what the agency did with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, known as EMTALA. Although CMS clarified some issues, others are still confusing. And there are still stiff penalties for violating the law, including fines of up to $50,000 and exclusion from Medicare. It's up to you to update your hospital's current policies to stay in compliance with this law. You also need to train all of your ED staff, clinical staff, and other workers to understand and comply with the new EMTALA law.
The EMTALA Survival Kit has all the tools you need to comply with the new law-and train your staff! It includes a book that provides plain-English explanations and strategies, a training handbook, and a training video. Buy all three resources and SAVE $124!
About the resources in the EMTALA Survival Kit
A Practical Guide to EMTALA Compliance is a 150-page book that summarizes, clarifies, and explains EMTALA in plain-English. A study of EMTALA violations from 1996 to 2000 revealed that 90% of violations dealt with the screening, stabilization, or transfer provisions-requirements that still exist under the new law. This practical resource thoroughly explains these requirements, provides case studies to illustrate compliance, and gives you practical strategies to make sure you comply in every patient case!
With A Practical Guide to EMTALA Compliance, you'll get:
- A comparison of the old rule and CMS' recent changes
- Step-by-step advice on how to respond to an EMTALA violation
- Realistic scenarios that illustrate how to comply with EMTALA in various situations
- A review of court cases, with explanations of what the defendant did wrong and how you can avoid making the same mistakes
- Appendices that offer:
- A glossary that explains key terms and points you to applicable page numbers in the EMTALA final rule
- Directions that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gives surveyors on how to investigate a potential violation. Use this information to perform your own EMTALA audits.
- An informative Q & A section to help you meet EMTALA's on-call requirements and ensure that your facility complies with EMTALA.
- On the accompanying CD-ROM, you'll receive:
- A customizable and downloadable training section that gives you:
- Guidance on how to train employees and what information to cover
- One hospital's 40-page training presentation, presented in both PowerPoint and Word, that you can customize and use to train all of your employees
- A training quiz with answer key, to help you reinforce and document training
- The complete EMTALA final rule in Adobe Acrobat format
On-call obligations
PLUS: In this Practical Guide, you'll find detailed information on the physician on-call requirements imposed by EMTALA. You get three whole chapters on this challenging topic! This book will explain the regulations and offer solutions to staffing the on-call list. You'll also get practical answers to tough on-call problems, such as: What can we do if our only physicians in a certain specialty refuse to take on-call duties? What should we do if our physicians will only take on-call duties if they are paid? Some of our physicians want to relinquish certain clinical privileges to get out of on-call duty-what can we do to stop them?
You'll find answers to these questions and more with A Practical Guide to EMTALA Compliance!
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Train your staff quickly and easily
EMTALA Compliance: What Every Employee And Physician Must Know, Second Edition, is a 16-minute video that will help you train your entire ED staff on the new rules. Hundreds of hospitals trained their staffs with the First Edition of this easy-to-understand video. Now, you can get everyone up to speed on the changes with this newly updated version, which presents common scenarios to answer your staff's EMTALA questions, including:
- Can I discuss insurance coverage with a patient before or during a screening examination?
- What should I do if an on-call physician refuses to come in when called? Is this a violation by the hospital or by the physician?
- When is it legal to transfer an ED patient and what is the correct transfer process under EMTALA?
- Can I transfer a patient in labor if the patient requests the transfer?
- Are off-campus hospital departments required to follow EMTALA regulations?
EMTALA Compliance gets your whole staff up to speed quickly and easily- without busting the budget!
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And for ongoing training . . .
The EMTALA Training Handbook for Physicians and Other ED Staff by Todd Sagin, MD, JD, is a resource you can hand out to staff so they have something to refer to whenever questions arise. This easy-to-tote resource, which comes in packages of 25, provides 40 pages of plain-English EMTALA explanations. It's up-to-date to completely reflect the new rule.
This handbook will teach your ED staff when, where, and to whom EMTALA applies, as well as where its requirements end. It's also the perfect tool to give to physician applicants. Both hospital and physician practice staff will benefit from this useful information. You can use it to reinforce and complement the EMTALA Compliance video training!
With The EMTALA Training Handbook for Physicians and Other ED Staff, your staff will learn whether EMTALA regulations apply when patients:
- Come to a dedicated ED for emergency services
- Come to a dedicated ED for non-emergency services
- Present to areas other than the ED
- Receive hospital outpatient services
- Are admitted as inpatients
- Are in labor
- Present to an off-campus hospital department
Get MONEY-SAVING DISCOUNTS on volume purchases of the EMTALA Training Handbook! For a price sheet or a free sample, e-mail Dave Miller or call him at or 888/209-6554.
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