EMTALA is not a traditional public health insurance program like Medicare or the VA health benefit program as we covered in earlier units. Notwithstanding, how does EMTALA create the right to health care? Under what circumstances would treatment under EMTALA include highly specialized and expensive medical care like surgery? If a hospital treats an uninsured patient under EMTALA, can the hospital recover any of those associated costs?

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EMTALA or the Crisis Medical Therapy and Work Act is a government regulation in the US that expects clinics to give crisis medical care to anybody no ... View the full answer