Emergency Medicine Foundation Announces 2019–2020 Grantees
Mid-Career Research Development Ryan McCormack, MD, MS NYU Langone Health Rapid Induction of Buprenorphine in the Emergency...
ACEP Now: Vol 38 – No 10 – October 2019
What You Need to Know About Vaping-Associated Pulmonary Injury
Using electronic cigarettes, or vaping, has become increasingly popular within the past several years. Within the past...
When Patients Turn Violent
When I took my first job as an attending emergency physician at Mount Sinai Hospital in New...
ACEP4U: Improving Patient Access to Mental Health Care
Nearly one in five American adults struggles with some form of mental illness, and ED visits for...
2019–2020 Emergency Physician Compensation Report
Emergency physician incomes in most areas of the United States continue to increase. In 2009–2010, the national...
Opinion: Single Payer Health Care’s Time Has Come
Fundamentally, single-payer insurance is about changing the way we pay for the health care we already have....
Opinion: Single Payer Health Care Would Be Detrimental to Emergency Physicians
If you think health care is expensive now, wait till it’s free.” ―P.J. O’Rourke By the common...
CMS Proposed Rule Includes 2020 Emergency Physician Compensation Increase
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released two long awaited proposed rules: the 2020...
ABEM President Dr. Jill Baren Tackles Critical EM Certification Issues
Transforming the way emergency physicians learn and stay certified is one of the most critical and exciting...
Opinion: Doctors, Get X Waivered and Ban the X Waiver
How many saves do we really make? We count the dramatic ones, like that rare thoracotomy that...
Residency Spotlight: Denver Health Residency in Emergency Medicine
Twitter: @denverEM Location: Denver, Colorado Year founded: 1974 Number of residents/program length: 17 residents a year, four-year...
Tips for Quickly Diagnosing Compartment Syndrome
The Case A 28-year-old male presents after a motorcycle crash. He has right lower leg pain and...
By the Numbers: Motorcycle Crash Fatalities
5,172 motorcyclists were killed in traffic crashes in 2017, a 3% decrease from 2016. (source) Per vehicle...
Congratulations to the 2019 ACEP Leadership Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2019 recipients of the College’s most prestigious awards. The winners will be honored during...
ACEP Supports Two New International Emergency Medicine Courses at ACEP19
A decade ago, the World Health Assembly adopted Resolution 60.22 titled “Health Systems: Emergency Care Systems.” This...
In Neonates with Herpes, How Often Does Mom Have Genital Herpes?
Question : In neonates infected with herpes simplex virus (HSV), how common is a maternal history of...
Is There a Link Between Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension and Obesity in Kids?
Question: In children with idiopathic (or primary) intracranial hypertension (IIH)—previously called pseudotumor cerebri syndrome—are the typical patients...
Survival Tips for the First Step of a Malpractice Lawsuit
“They showed up at my door to serve me. … I was in my pajamas.” “I was...
The Latest Emergency Department Utilization Numbers Are In
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its statistical survey of emergency department visits for...
Meet Lefamulin, a New Antibiotic for Your Infection Toolkit
In medical school teaching for most of the last half century, the ascendant antibiotic in our armamentarium...
Allies, Advocates, and Accomplices Are Critical to Diversity and Inclusion
We have made significant strides toward emergency medicine workplace diversity. That cannot be denied. But given the...
Even If Patient Reviews Don’t Correlate With Quality Care, Don’t Ignore Them
In response to a 2016 article exploring the themes common among Yelp reviews of emergency department visits,...
How Did Your Last Patient Rate You on Yelp?
Editor’s Note: Read Dr. Cedric Dark’s commentary on this EMRA + PolicyRx Health Policy Journal Club article....
How Did University Hospital in San Antonio Reduce ED Boarding?
It is well-recognized that delays in inpatient discharges result in ED boarding of admitted patients. Boarding has...
FACEPs in the Crowd: Dr. Lane Patten, Dr. Frederick Blum, and Dr. Melissa Kohn
Lane Patten, MD, FACEP Lane Patten, MD, FACEP, an emergency physician at North Memorial Health in Minneapolis,...
How to Maximize Reimbursement for Advanced Practice Provider Services
Question: How can we maximize reimbursement for services provided by advanced practice providers? Answer: “Non-physician provider” (NPP),...
Reimbursement Changes for Emergency Care of Veterans
The Veterans’ Emergency Care Fairness Act of 2009 provided payment for veterans enrolled in Department of Veterans...
ACEP Urges Removal of Obstacles to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
As the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services compiles a report for Congress on treating opioid...
Emergency Physician’s Name Added to 9/11 Memorial Wall
Michael G. Guttenberg, MD, who passed away in October 2017 from pancreatic cancer attributed to his work...
Patient Confidentiality for Substance Use Disorder
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services...
ACEP Launches New Website for External Audience
ACEP has reimagined Emergency Care for You to create a new, comprehensive external website. EmergencyPhysicians.org is a...
The Emergency Exemption for Medicare’s Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC)
You may have heard about the upcoming Medicare requirement to consult Appropriate Use Criteria (AUC) through approved...
