Patient Dumping in the Federal Courts: Expanding EMTALA without Preempting State Malpractice Law

Hoffman Helene , Does COBRA Work?: The Problem of Patient Dumping and Possible Solutions, 25 J. Health & Hosp. L. (1992.), available in LEXIS, Health Library, HOSPLW File.

Id.

See H.R. Rep. No. 141, 99th Cong., 2d Sess., pt. 3, at 6 (1986), reprinted in 1986 U.S.C.C.A.N. 726, 727; id., pt. 1, at 27 (1986), reprinted in 1986 U.S.C.C.A.N. 579, 605.

See id., pt. 3, at 6 (1986), reprinted in 1986 U.S.C.C.A.N. 726, 728.

42 U.S.C.A. § 1395 dd(a) (West Supp. 1991).

§ 1395 dd(b)(1)(A)-(B).

§ 1395 dd(d)(1)(A)-(B).

§ 1395 dd(d)(2)(A).

See Evitt v. University Heights Hosp., 717 F. Supp. 495 (S.D. Ind. 1989); Stewart v. Myrick, 731 F. Supp. 433 (D. Kan. 1990).

917 F.2d 266, 268 (6th Cir. 1990).

933 F.2d 1037, 1040 (D.C. Cir. 1991).

Burditt v. United States Dep't of Health and Human Services, 934 F.2d 1362, 1373 (5th Cir. 1991); Brooker v. Desert Hosp. Corp., 947 F.2d 412, 415 (9th Cir. 1991).

934 F.2d at 1371.

917 F.2d at 272.

42 U.S.C.A. § 1395 dd(e)(1)(B)(i-ii) (West Supp. 1991).

917 F.2d at 272.

Id.

Bryant v. Riddle Memorial Hosp., 689 F.Supp. 490, 491 (E.D. Pa. 1988). See also Thornton v. Southwest Detroit Hosp., 895 F.2d 1131, 1133 (6th Cir. 1990); Sorrells v. Babcock, 733 F.Supp 1189, 1194 (N.D. Ill. 1990).

A plaintiff can get federal jurisdiction over a state malpractice claim if it arises from the same nucleus of operative facts as the federal EMTALA claim. See, e.g., id.

Gatewood v. Washington Healthcare Corp., 933 F.2d 1037, 1039 (D.C. Cir. 1991).

42 U.S.C.A. § 1395 dd(c)(1)(A)(ii) (West Supp. 1991).

See Burditt v. United States Dep't of Health and Human Services, 934 F.2d 1362, 1371 (5th Cir. 1991).

42 U.S.C.A. § 1395 dd(a) (West Supp. 1991).

Cleland v. Bronson Health Care Group, Inc., 917 F.2d 266, 271 (6th Cir. 1990).

Gatewood v. Washington Healthcare Corp., 933 F.2d 1037, 1041 (D.C. Cir. 1991).

Id.

Hoffman, supra note 1.

See id.