Nearly one-third of U.S. hospitals have violated emergency department care standards set by the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the last decade, according to an investigative report from ...

On June 3, 2025, the Trump administration rescinded Biden-era federal guidance that affirmed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) and specifically reinforced its supremacy in ...

On August 13, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its Center for Clinical Standards and Quality / Quality, Safety & Oversight Group issued its memorandum QSO-24-17-EMTALA ...

This case is emblematic of the tension between EMTALA and state bans on abortions. As Sheppard Mullin has previously highlighted in our blog posts located here and here, EMTALA has received renewed ...

Hospitals left waiting for the Supreme Court to untangle contradictory federal and state laws on abortion and emergency medicine are coming under fire. Experts warned that providers in the 26 states ...

The Supreme Court appears ready to rule that hospitals in Idaho may provide medically necessary abortions to stabilize patients at least for now, despite the state's strict abortion law, according to ...

CMS is seeking comment on whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act should be revised to apply to inpatients that need transfers to more specialized facilities, according to an AHA News ...

For nearly 40 years, EMTALA has protected access to emergency services regardless of a person’s ability to pay, citizenship, or legal status. By requiring hospitals to screen, stabilize, treat, or ...

CHICAGO -- The American Medical Association (AMA) should speak out more forcefully on the Trump administration's rescission of guidance on provision of abortions during a medical emergency, AMA ...

An order inadvertently posted on the Supreme Court’s website this morning indicates that the Court, by a vote of 5 to 4, will dismiss as improvidently granted—in the Court’s jargon, DIG—the certiorari ...