| EMTALA and False Labor |
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| The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act(EMTALA)requires hospitals to treat women who appear in their emergency departments in true labor, but they do not have to treat women in false labor.They must provide a screening, conducted by a qualified medical evaluator, in order to determine whether an emergency patient is in true labor or is in false labor. Only a physician can determine that a woman is in false labor.
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| Judicial and Administrative Use of Protected Health Information |
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| An entity that is subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Privacy Rule promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) can disclose an individual's protected health information without obtaining the individual's authorization or providing an opportunity to agree or object to the disclosure in certain circumstances involving judicial and administrative proceedings.
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| Mandatory HIV Testing of Newborns |
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| The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), can be transferred from an HIV-positive mother to her child. Testing a newborn's antibodies after birth reveals whether the newborn has been exposed to HIV. Administering antiretroviral chemoprophylaxis (AZT) to at-risk newborns following delivery dramatically reduces their chances of developing HIV.More... |
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| Certificates of Need |
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| Certificate of need programs are regulatory processes that assign the responsibility of addressing access, quality, and cost issues related to healthcare delivery to state reviewers. In states that have certificate of need programs, hospitals and health care providers cannot open, expand or add services without complying with the state's certificate of need program requirements.More... |
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| Business Associates and the HIPAA Privacy Rule |
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| The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) requires health care providers, insurers, and health plans to maintain the privacy of confidential patient health information. HIPAA has created privacy rules to protect the confidentiality of that information, when it is relayed to third parties, who have been hired by HIPAA covered entities to perform services for them.
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