For reference, the legal grounding of this is EMTALA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.or

For reference, the legal grounding of this is EMTALA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_... Which basically summarizes as "EDs that accept payments from Medicaid are required to at minimum stabilize all patients, regardless of their ability to pay or several named statuses."