ACEP Outlines Flaws, Biases in New England Journal of Medicine Story on Balance Billing
In November, The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) published an article of great concern for all...
ACEP Now: Vol 36 – No 01 – January 2017
Procedural Sedation Delays and NPO Status for Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department
The Case An 8-year-old boy falls while playing ice hockey. He has an isolated distal radius fracture...
ACEP Issues Financial Report for the 2015–16 Fiscal Year
ACEP is a membership organization, and the members have a right to know its financial status. Therefore,...
Wearable Health Care Technology, Devices that Emergency Physicians Need to Know About
This is Part 2 of our ongoing series on the Internet Of Medical Things (IOMT). There are...
2017 Emergency Department Coding and Reimbursement Update
The 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule was released on Nov. 2, 2016, with mostly good news for...
Maryland Hospitals Feel Impact of Global Budget Revenue Model
In the 1976 movie All the President’s Men about Watergate, the informant “Deep Throat” tells Bob Woodward...
Vermont to Launch All-Payer Accountable Care Organization Model for Financing Health Care
Beginning in January 2017, Vermont will launch a voluntary all-payer accountable care organization (ACO) model for financing...
Superficial Venous Thromboses, Intracranial Aneurysms, and Treating High Glucose Levels: More Myths in Emergency Medicine
1.All Superficial Venous Thromboses Are Created Equal? It is very easy to take the ultrasound report at...
Stigma Surrounding Physician Suicides Means Many Go Unreported
When I was a resident, I came home from a swing shift in May to the smell...
Low Back Pain Emergencies Could Signal Neurological Injuries
When physicians pick up a chart in the emergency department and see that the chief complaint is...
Should Emergency Physicians Abandon Face-Mask Ventilation?
Face-mask ventilation is considered a fundamental procedural skill in emergency medicine. We have historically deployed it when...
Long-Term Trends in Emergency Department Visits, Patient Care Highlighted in National Reports
Emergency physicians and emergency department leaders face an important time in determining how to serve the needs...
Documentation Tips for Physicians Using Medical Scribes
Editor’s Note: Cutting through the red tape to make certain that you get paid for every dollar...
ACEP Nominating Committee Accepting Applications for Board, Council Positions through March 1, 2017
The ACEP Nominating Committee is accepting nominations until March 1, 2017, for the national ACEP Board of...
African-American Physicians Land Emergency Medicine Leadership Roles
Leon L. Haley Jr., MD, MHSA, FACEP, CPE, became dean of the College of Medicine and vice...
