[grumpygresh]

This is really an extension of EMTLA. Now involuntary servitude is required on a non-urgent basis. And just think, if she makes any coding errors or doesn’t follow a regulation that she unknowingly hasn’t agreed to, she is guilty of fraud.
We really do have criminal government.

[markman46]

EMTLA is for hospitals only does not apply to physian offices

[Cyman]

You repeat a point that is very important....Obamacare’s unstated goal is to make each and every physician that treats a patient or submits a claim, guilty of felony fraud. They have extorted us into the debacles of EMR’s, HIPAA, ICD10, PQRS and eRx....all with thousands of dollars of penalties and possible jail time. So if you displease, they can come into ANY practice and find fraudulent activity.

In my 32years of practice I always proudly claimed to never even think of retiring, now if I had any other skills I would be gone in a nanosecond.

[Ozark Tom]

Re bureaucrats:

Anyone seen Jimmy Hoffa?

[savedbygrace]

I had to look it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act