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Content: See Note, supra, at 1189-96. Congress responded with the Emergency Act, which imposes on Medicare-provider hospitals a duty to afford medical screening and stabilizing treatment to any patient who seeks care in a hospital emergency room. . . [ at 1040]
From Arrington v. Wong,19 F. Supp. 2d 1151 (D.Hi. 1998): To provide emergency treatment to indigent and uninsured patients, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986 (EMTALA), commonly known as the Patient Anti-Dumping Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, to prevent "hospitals . . . `dumping' [indigent ] patients . . . by either refusing to provide emergency medical treatment or transfer-ring patients before their conditions were stabilized." James v. Sunrise Hosp., 86 F.3d 885, 886 (9th Cir.