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· 9/13/1996

Bryan v. Rectors & Visitors of the University of Virginia

Citations

  • 95 F.3d 349
  • 1996 WL 518176

How courts have described this case

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  • suggesting that refinements in federal medicaid law would be required to advance purposes of EMTALA
  • sug gesting that refinements in federal medicaid law would be required to advance purposes of EMTALA
  • “EMTALA is quite clear that it is not intended to preempt state tort law except where absolutely necessary.”
  • “[T]he stabilization requirement was intended to regulate the hospital’s care of the patient only in the immediate aftermath of the act of admitting her for emergency treatment . . . .”
  • “[EMTALA’s] core purpose is to get patients into the system who might otherwise go untreated and be left without a remedy because traditional medical malpractice law affords no claim for failure to treat.”

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Judges: Murnaghan, Williams, Phillips

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