Patient dumping — refusing patients care due to their inability to pay — still occurs despite the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act that requires hospitals’ emergency departments to treat all ...

A new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says federal emergency care laws must be changed to reduce patient dumping, after reviewing patient dumping allegations and capacity problems in ...

There's no specific law against hospitals "dumping" homeless patients on the streets of skid row, so a measure introduced today in Sacramento would make it a crime. Hospitals ask what they're supposed ...

A nonprofit medical center in Los Angeles has agreed to pay $450,000 to settle allegations that it dumped a homeless man on the streets after treating him, the Los Angeles Times reports. Good ...

Federal law generally prohibits long-term care facilities from abruptly evicting patients. But a complex set of administrative factors, limited resources for behavioral care and lack of oversight mean ...

By a vote of 12 to one today, the LA City Council made it a misdemeanor for a hospital to leave a discharged patient any place but his or her residence without the patient’s written consent. It’s a ...

I’m not at all surprised by the patient “dumping” stories. This has been going on for years. Nonpublic hospitals regularly release patients who lack health insurance before they are ready, or don’t ...

A patient with no home to return to was pushed in a wheelchair to the curb outside Temple University Hospital. Staffers left him sitting on a bench, even though he was considered at a high risk of ...

Fighting a legal battle can quickly drain your savings, but if you are not dealing with a criminal case, there is another option that could be less costly and time-consuming: mediation.

Los Angeles prosecutors filed civil complaints yesterday accusing two hospitals — Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, in Los Feliz, Calif., and Methodist Hospital, in Arcadia, Calif. — of dumping ...

After steadfastly denying claims that it buses mentally ill patients into other states with instructions to seek out better health care and benefits, the state of Nevada is defending its long-held ...