Ascension Resurrection Agreed to Pay $133,420 for Allegedly Violating Patient Dumping Statute by Failing to Provide Appropriate Medical Screening Examination

On February 26, 2025, Presence Chicago Hospitals Network d/b/a Ascension Resurrection (Resurrection), Chicago, Illinois, entered into a $133,420 settlement agreement with OIG. The settlement agreement resolves allegations that Resurrection violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA). Based on its investigation, OIG concluded that in April 2023, Resurrection failed to provide an individual who presented to Resurrection’s Emergency Department (ED) complaining of chest pain, nausea, and vomiting, with a timely and appropriate medically screening examination. Resurrection obtained the patient’s insurance information, but failed to obtain an EKG, perform a pain assessment, and obtain a medical history. The patient was sent to Resurrection’s waiting area after triage, there he waited an hour, and then, without having received a medical screening examination, he left to seek care at a different hospital where he was diagnosed with a ST-elevation myocardial infarction, an emergency medical condition.

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