On May 29, 2025, the United States Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rescinded two Quality, Safety & Oversight Letters issued under the Biden administration in 2022 and an accompanying letter from the then-Secretary of HHS. The Letters had set forth the Biden administration’s position that the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act requires health care providers to provide abortion services when such services are necessary to stabilize a pregnant patient with an emergency medical condition, and that EMTALA preempts any state laws with conflicting requirements, including state laws that restrict the provision of abortion services. Hall Render’s alert summarizing the Letters can be found
here.