Hospitals charge a standard evaluation and management services fee (“EMS”) for patients seen in the emergency room, in one of five amounts, depending upon the severity of the visit. This EMS fee is listed in the hospital’s public “chargemaster,” a comprehensive price list required by law. But does the hospital also have a duty to inform individual ER patients, before they receive services, about the EMS fee?

Continue Reading California Supreme Court Rejects Non-Disclosure Theory for ER Evaluation and Management Fees, Holding that Hospitals owe no Additional Duty Outside Regulatory Pricing Disclosure Regime