Two hospitals broke a law requiring emergency medical care for facilities that are paid by Medicare, federal officials say.
The Freeman Health System in Joplin, Missouri, and the University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTLA) when they failed to “offer necessary stabilizing care” to a woman, officials with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said in notices to the hospitals.
The woman was identified as Mylissa Farmer by her lawyers, who said she was suffering from life-threatening pregnancy complications 17 weeks into her pregnancy when she went to the hospitals….