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Privacy rights questioned in ER plan for illegal immigrants.(Emergency Room)
Economic Opportunity Report, September, 2004
A federal initiative to reimburse hospitals for emergency care provided to illegal immigrants has many facilities and immigration advocates questioning if the guidelines violate patient rights to privacy.
Congress has allotted $1 billion to hospitals for emergency care of illegal immigrants for four years beginning Sept. 1, 2004. But to get the money from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), hospitals must ask questions that advocates say invade the privacy not only of illegal immigrants, but of all emergency room visitors without health insurance.
Once the patient is treated and stable enough to answer questions, hospital employees first ask if they are a U.S. citizen. If the answer is "no," a series of questions follows asking if...
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