| Subject: | CMS Releases Advanced Copy of Updated EMTALA State Operations Manual |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Mon, 31 Mar 2008 - 06:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released an advance copy of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) Appendix V to Publication 100-07, the State Operations Manual (SOM), which incorporates guidance provided in Survey and Certification memoranda issued since the last SOM update. The revised Appendix V also contains some technical corrections. In addition, the Tag numbers contained in the Appendix also have been revised, to correspond to the Tag numbers... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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