2300 If a health care provider's liability in an action against it depends on what decision the reasonable health care provider would have made, it is subject to the MICRA cap on non-economic damages, even though the action was brought under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA).CitationBARRIS v COUNTY OF LA (Patient Dumping) 20 C4 101 [See: 42 USC 1395 etseq; CCP 3333.2; Central Path v Superior Court 3 C4 181, T/AT 10/92; Hedlund v Superior Court 34 C3 695; Alef v Alta 5 CA4 208; Barris v County (RevGrtd) AT 1/98]
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