- Title
- EMTALA On-Call Requirements and Remote Consultation Utilizing Telecommunications Media
- Memo #
- 07-23
- Posting Date
- 06/22/2007
- Fiscal Year
- 2007
- Summary
- The treating physician in a hospital's or critical access hospital's (CAH) dedicated emergency department (DED) who is conducting the medical screening examination and/or providing stabilizing treatment of an individual required by the EMTALA regulations at 42 CFR 489.24 may, without violating EMTALA, consult on the individual's case with a physician who is not present in the DED by means of any telecommunications medium that the physicians choose to use. This does not change the obligation under EMTALA of a physician who is on-call to make an in-person appearance in the DED when requested to do so by the treating physician.
