CMS reminds hospitals of EMTALA obligations following passage of Texas Heartbeat Act
By Allison Shelton and Colleen Byrom, Brown and Fortunato On September 1, 2021, the highly debated Texas Heartbeat Act (“Heartbeat Act”) went into effect. In short, Texas’s new law prohibits a physician from knowingly performing or inducing an abortion if the physician has “detected a fetal heartbeat for the unborn child . . . or failed to perform a test to detect a fetal heartbeat,” and the abortion is not necessitated by a “medical emergency.”...