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Study: Psych patients face especially long ED waits

June 17, 2008 — 11:27am ET | By Anne Zieger
With the number of psychiatric units dropping in hospitals, and beds scarce, mentally-ill patients in need of hospitalization are waiting for increasingly long periods to be admitted, according to... Read more...

EMTALA flexibility proposed to relieve on-call MD shortages

June 11, 2008 — 6:59am ET
In a new Medicare hospital payment rule released in late April, CMS included a proposal clarifying its on-call policies under EMTALA. If finalized, the proposal would let a group of hospitals in a... Read more...