In 1986, Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA) [1]. EMTALA (hereinafter referred to as: this act) ensures public access to emergency healthcare services regardless of the…

Table 3 presents a bird’s eye view of the legislative and regulatory evolution of the Stark Law from 1972 to 2020 [3, 13, 18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27]. Table 4 presents 18 blanket waivers…

There are four principles of clinical or biomedical ethics [1]. These four principles, expounded in Beauchamp and Childress’ book titled, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, are enlisted as beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy,…