"The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), signed into law by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1986, requires Medicare-participating hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of whether a patient can pay. Hospitals are required to stabilize patients in emergency situations and can only transfer patients out if medically justified and there is no active emergency."
"Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient? Gutierrez asked on Thursday. That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer, Leavitt said."
Karoline Leavitt declined to directly answer whether emergency rooms should check patients' immigration status before providing emergency treatment. Leavitt criticized Democrats and accused them of causing the federal government shutdown while disputing claims about healthcare for undocumented immigrants. Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a funding deal amid disputes over extending Affordable Care Act subsidies and reversing some Medicaid cuts. Existing federal law, EMTALA, requires Medicare-participating hospitals to provide emergency care regardless of ability to pay and to stabilize patients before any transfer. Reporters pressed Leavitt on whether immigration status should be checked during emergency care; she deferred to healthcare and legal experts.
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