Decreased Public Mental Health Spending Raises Concerns over Psychiatric Patient Boarding
The availability of inpatient psychiatric care has worsened significantly and progressively over the past four years on…
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Decreased Public Mental Health Spending Raises Concerns over Psychiatric Patient Boarding
The availability of inpatient psychiatric care has worsened significantly and progressively over the past four years on... -
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... -
What is Emergency Physicians’ Duty to Report in Cases of Clear and Present Danger?
Most state mandates require mental health professionals to report patients likely to harm themselves or others, while...
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…
What is Emergency Physicians’ Duty to Report in Cases of Clear and Present Danger?
Most state mandates require mental health professionals to report patients likely to harm themselves or others, while…
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…
Opinion: Dispelling Myths, Reiterating Facts About the Affordable Care Act
Common claims about predicted physician shortages, health care benefit cuts by businesses, rising co-pays for emergency department…
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…
The Sustainable Growth Rate Formula, Then and Now
How the SGR Medicare physician-payment formula became flawed and why a fix is unlikely in 2014 Even…
Legal Wrangling, Political Debate Continue as Affordable Care Act Takes Hold
Provisions of health care reform spark lawsuits, divide state leaders, and encourage release of federal guidelines to…
Emergency Medicine in the White House
National Security Council staff director for medical preparedness policy, Richard Hunt, MD, FACEP, discusses the value of…
ACEP Reacts to Issue of Creating Safe Harbor Protections for Following Clinical Guidelines
ACEP board members, council officers, executive leaders weigh in on this potential solution to regulatory pressure around…