The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act or EMTALA defines there to be three requirements of those hospitals that participate in Medicare. The hospital needs to provide an appropriate medical screening exam to anyone that comes to the emergency department seeking medical care such as an exam or treatment (American Academy of Emergency Medicine, n.d.). The hospital is also required to provide an examination or treatment when the individual present on hospital property and not just in the emergency department of the hospital campus (American Hospital Association, n.d.). The hospital must perform an “EMTALA screening obligation if the individual was not able to make a verbal request but showed symptoms that indicated an obvious possibility
