Moses v. Providence Hospital & Medical Centers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a hospital may not release a patient with an emergency medical condition without first determining that the patient has actually stabilized, even if the hospital properly admitted the patient”
• refusing to defer to a provision of the CMS regulations upon finding it “contrary” to the plain text of EMTALA
• describing presumption against applying a regulation “to events arising prior to the regulation’s enactment”
• “Because the CMS rule is contrary to the plain language of the statute, this Court does not afford it Chevron deference.”
• “[A] mental health emergency could qualify as an ‘emergency medical condition’ under the plain language of [EMTALA].”
• “[A] hospital may not release a patient with an emergency medical condition without first determining that the patient has actually stabilized, even if the hospital properly admitted the patient.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).