This teleconference addresses the levels and types of services in the ED and differentiate between emergent, urgent and clinical levels of services. The program will help personnel understand the reasons for increasing volumes of urgent and clinical level services in the ED, the increasing needs for fast-tracks and establishment of urgent-care clinics, pressures on Medicare and other third-party payers to create special coding, billing and reimbursement processes for non-emergent care in a hospital ED. The speaker will also review how EMTALA rules and requirements dovetail with non-emergent levels of care.