Mental Health Resources, Liability Reform, and More on Tap for Coming Year
Welcome to Chicago and ACEP14! This meeting is the one time each year that we take a…
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Mental Health Resources, Liability Reform, and More on Tap for Coming Year
Welcome to Chicago and ACEP14! This meeting is the one time each year that we take a... -
ACEP Elections: President-Elect Candidates Weigh in on CAHPS Scores
Jay Kaplan, MD, FACEP Director of Service and Operational Excellence, CEP America; Attending Physician, Department of... -
Hospitals, Health Care Associations File Lawsuit to Challenge Delayed Two-Midnight Rule
Emergency physicians don’t need to comply just yet with the two-midnight rule, and if a group of...
ACEP Elections: President-Elect Candidates Weigh in on CAHPS Scores
Jay Kaplan, MD, FACEP Director of Service and Operational Excellence, CEP America; Attending Physician, Department of…
Hospitals, Health Care Associations File Lawsuit to Challenge Delayed Two-Midnight Rule
Emergency physicians don’t need to comply just yet with the two-midnight rule, and if a group of…
CMS Releases Physician Payment Data for the First Time Since 1979
On April 9, 2014, the annual payments individual physicians receive from Medicare were made public by the…
CMS and Maryland Enter into Accountable Care Agreement
Maryland shifts its hospitals from fee-for-service to pay-for-performance payment model; expenditures-per-capita system estimated to save Medicare $330…
Medicare Audits Create More Headaches, Delays for Medical Billing
Emergency physicians and hospitals increasingly frustrated with length of audit process, delayed reimbursement on successfully appealed claims…
ACEP Now Features on Two-Midnight Rule, Pregnancy and Clots Useful to Emergency Physicians
Articles address impact of hospital patient admission rule on emergency medicine, prevalence and risk of VTE disease…
ED Leaders Prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms, Quality-of-Care Improvements
As CMS’ value-based purchasing program enters its second year, emergency departments are poised to influence hospital outcomes…
Guidelines On Administering Sedation to Patients Unnecessarily Restrictive for ED Physicians
ACEP seeks resolution to limitations on procedural sedation in the ED, renews call to allow EM physicians…
What Will the CMS Two-Midnight Rule Mean for Emergency Medicine?
Determining inpatient versus outpatient admissions—a calculation with many financial implications—may fall to emergency physicians Update: The Centers…