When Cost Keeps Patients Away
How high-deductible health plans force patients to delay necessary care, leaving the emergency department to absorb the financial and clinical fallout.
Health Care Reform
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When Cost Keeps Patients Away
How high-deductible health plans force patients to delay necessary care, leaving the emergency department to absorb the financial and clinical fallout. -
Determining a Fair Price for Health Care
Editor’s Note: Read Dr. Cedric Dark’s commentary on this EMRA + PolicyRx Health Policy Journal Club article.... -
How Can Health Care Stakeholders Agree on Fair Prices for Our Services?
Emergency medicine, insurance companies, and patients currently exist in what I see as a standoff. The tension...
Determining a Fair Price for Health Care
Editor’s Note: Read Dr. Cedric Dark’s commentary on this EMRA + PolicyRx Health Policy Journal Club article….
How Can Health Care Stakeholders Agree on Fair Prices for Our Services?
Emergency medicine, insurance companies, and patients currently exist in what I see as a standoff. The tension…
Value-Based Reforms Linked to Readmission Reductions
Hospital participation in voluntary value-based reforms is associated with greater readmission reductions under Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction…
ACEP President Dr. Jay Kaplan Outlines Key Points on Balance Billing in Becker’s Hospital Review
Balance billing is becoming an increasingly common topic for health care reform conversations. High-deductible health plans and…
ACEP President Dr. Jay Kaplan Discusses Challenges Facing Emergency Medicine
Each year brings new challenges for our specialty to face and a new President to lead the…
ACEP Joins National Opioid Working Group
ACEP has joined dozens of other medical groups to participate in the U.S. Department of Health and…
Emergency Physicians Encouraged to Draw Attention to Pharmaceutical Drug Shortages
Although many ACEP members have forgotten about times when medications were consistently plentiful, it’s really been just…
Emergency Physicians Discuss Mergers, Money, Future of Emergency Medicine at ACEP15 Council Town Hall
Editor’s Note: The ACEP Council hosted a Town Hall meeting on mergers and acquisitions on Oct. 24,…
UnitedHealth May Exit Obamacare Exchanges in 2017
UnitedHealth Group Inc., the largest U.S. health insurer, warned on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, that it might…