EMTALA: getting under the hood of an EMTALA complaint

Please join us for a great webinar on Wednesday, August 5 at 4:00 pm Eastern.

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Expert panelists:

Matthew Stofferahn, MD
Executive Medical Director, Commence Health

Matthew Stofferahn, MD is the executive medical director of the Commence Health Beneficiary and Family Centered Care-Quality Improvement Organization (BFCC-QIO).  In that capacity, he oversees all clinical review activities of the organization, which partners with CMS to protect the rights of Medicare beneficiaries to receive high-quality health care.  He is board-certified in emergency medicine, internal medicine, and HALM.  In addition to maintaining his clinical practice in the emergency department, his professional experience includes roles in hospital administration, quality improvement, and graduate medical education.

Sean Michael, MD, MBA, FACEP
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services 
Regional Chief Medical Officer, CMS Denver

Sean Michael is an actively practicing emergency physician with dual-board certification in clinical informatics. He serves as Regional Chief Medical Officer in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Denver location, focusing on cross-cutting implementation of CMS programs and policy. He is the agency’s clinical lead for the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and helps lead CMS agency-wide work on emergency and acute care, including emergency department boarding and crowding, emergency medical services (EMS), acute behavioral health care, emergency care of older adults, and national security topics. As a senior medical advisor for CMS programs, he also provides clinical expertise around payment, policy, quality improvement, survey and enforcement operations, contracted health plans, preparedness, artificial intelligence, and data analytics. He serves as the agency’s principal liaison with the clinical community across the Mountain West. Dr. Michael was previously the emergency department director of a large academic ED and continues to practice clinically and serve on the faculty of the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Over the course of an hour, we will explore:

• The anatomy of an EMTALA claim, things you might not know
• The interface of CMS and QIO
• Trends on what CMS and QIO are seeing

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