US · guidance
CMS SOM App. W, Tag C-2404
§489.20(r)(2)
[The hospital (including both the transferring and receiving hospitals), must maintain]
a list of physicians who are on call for duty after the initial examination to provide
further evaluation and/or treatment necessary to stabilize an individual with an
emergency medical condition.
§489.24(j)(1)
Each hospital must maintain an on-call list of physicians on its medical staff in a
manner that best meets the needs of the hospital's patients who are receiving services
required under this section in accordance with the resources available to the hospital,
including the availability of on-call physicians.
§489.24(j)(2)(i)
The hospital must have written policies and procedures in place to respond to
situations in which a particular specialty is not available or the on-call physician
cannot respond because of circumstances beyond the physician's control.
§489.24(j)(2)(ii)
The hospital must have written policies and procedures in place to provide that
emergency services are available to meet the needs of patients with emergency medical
conditions if it elects to permit on-call physicians to schedule elective surgery during
the time that they are on call or to permit on-call physicians to have simultaneous on-call duties.
History
Rev. 200, Issued: 02-21-20; Effective: 02-21-20, Implementation: 02-21-20
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-07-22
- Edition
- som-2026-07-22
- Content hash
c4ac949956577f4f7563060f4488cb9d64c4cc05270d8c788eaff5b8d06d2161
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