Post-Test

Participant demographics:

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* 1. Full Name:

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* 2. Please indicate credentials

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* 3. What type of certificate do you wish?

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* 4. Florida license number for CE Broker reporting:

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* 5. How many credit(s) are you claiming (reminder, DO must complete minimum of 0.50 and APRN must complete entire activity for credit):

Reducing Professional and Financial Risk Under EMTALA: A Review of Current EMTALA & Florida Law
Post-test (a passing score of 80% is required).

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* 6. Ongoing EMTALA training and education for physicians providing On-Call coverage to the Emergency Department is mandated by CMS. 

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* 7. Florida Law expressly prohibits discrimination in regard to provision of emergency medical treatment and services based on a patient’s inability to pay

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* 8. A physician who violates EMTALA may be fined up to $50,000 per incident and may be excluded from participation in Medicare.

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* 9. Under EMTALA, the On-call physician makes the ultimate determination as whether or not to come to the Emergency Department to examine or treat a patient.

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* 10. Admission of a patient to Observation status terminates all EMTALA obligations as to that patient.

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* 11. On-call physicians generally have up to 90 minutes to respond to call.

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* 12. Under EMTALA Law, a Physician can have their Extender respond to or take an ER call.

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* 13. A Medical Screening Examination is not required for every patient presenting to the Emergency Department.

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* 14. A Medical Screening Examination can never be performed by non-physician medical professionals?

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* 15. Under EMTALA, the legal definition applied by CMS and the Courts as to when a patient has been stabilized may be more stringent than the definition of “clinically stabilized”.

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* 16. Sending a non-stabilized ED patient to a physician’s office to receive medical treatment is generally permitted under EMTALA

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* 17. One of the top 10 most common EMTALA violations is for Emergency Department to forget to provide a patient with discharge instructions or provide them with either an inadequate or the wrong discharge instruction.

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