Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act ("EMTALA") ends when the patient is admitted to the hospital, as the Ninth Circuit held here, or even if the hospital properly admitted the patient, it may not release a patient with an emergency medical condition without first determining that the patient has actually stabilized, as at least two other Circuits have held.

Whether a hospital's obligation under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) continues beyond initial patient admission and requires ongoing stabilization of a patient's emergency medical condition, despite conflicting circuit court interpretations