title: Health lawyers teleconference: EMTALA update.
abstract: On September 16, 2003, the American Health Lawyers Association's (Health Lawyers) Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group and its Liability Practice Group sponsored a teleconference entitled EMTALA: Finally Final Regulations. During that Teleconference, Messrs. Barker and Urbanowicz, from the perspective of their positions at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services, gave an informal overview of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) final regulations that were unveiled a week earlier. Ms. Joy critiqued the regulations from the practitioner's standpoint, followed by questions from the teleconference off-site participants. This Article is a transcript of that teleconference, modified by the addition of endnotes and slight editing for publication.
authors.affiliation: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, USA.
authors.forename: Thomas R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Barker
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Urbanowicz
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Joy
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008483:Medical Assistance; D006278:Medicare; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards; D010360:Patient Transfer / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013685:Telecommunications; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services