Hospitals Attempt to Navigate Sea of Emergency Room Rule Changes

To help with the onslaught of coronavirus patients flooding emergency rooms, the Trump administration is allowing hospitals to encourage people to go to a mall or other location in the community to be tested. But hospitals still have to screen patients that walk through their emergency room doors.

That’s one of the many complexities of the latest waiver and subsequent memo the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued in an attempt to make it easier for hospitals to comply with a federal law Congress passed in 1986 to ensure everyone has access to emergency care regardless of their ability ...