Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Health Equity , Health Care Administration , Social EM , COVID-19 , Administration & Operations

GREAT SHOT

9/6/2022 Laura Haselden, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD

COVID-19 vaccine campaigns saved lives and reduced the number and severity of COVID cases in the United States. What did this mean to the business of health care? Significant cost savings.

Administration & Operations , Medico Legal

RVUs and You

6/10/2022 Margaret Provencher, MD , Dheeraj Duggineni, MD , Hisham Valiuddin, DO

Be specific, and be smart, about documenting, charting, and coding patient encounters. Underbilling results in lost opportunities for physicians and their institutions.

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration , COVID-19

Health Policy Journal Club: Show Me the Money

5/6/2022 Jacquelyn Callahan, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly lowered ED patient volumes, resulting in decreased hours for emergency physicians and a difficult job market. Could the current fee-for-service reimbursement model

Career Planning , Fellowships , Medical Education , Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration

A Fellowship for the Future

4/10/2022 Jonathan Oskvarek, MD, MBA , Angela Cai, MD, MBA

The need for innovation in emergency medicine (EM) has never been greater. The pandemic has strained physical and emotional resources and exposed the fragility of volume-based, fee-for-service reimbur

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Social EM , Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration

Health Policy Journal Club: Nonprofit Hospitals - Profitable or Not?

4/6/2022 Kyle Stucker, MD , Vidya Eswaran, MD

Nonprofit hospitals netted $24.6 billion in tax exemptions in 2011; by 2017, these hospitals had accumulated higher net income than for-profit institutions. Their charity care, however, has not kept p

Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Social EM , Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration , Career Planning , COVID-19

Health Policy Journal Club: The Doctor Will See You Now (Virtually)

3/6/2022 Caroline Bradford , Vidya Eswaran, MD

With patients and physicians becoming more familiar and dependent on the option of telehealth, it seems likely it will be here to stay in some form, even after the pandemic.

Administration & Operations , Fellowships , Medical Education , Career Planning

What You Need to Know About EM Administration Fellowships

2/12/2022 Michael Muradian, MD , Daniel A Novak, DO , Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA

EMRA’s Administration and Operations Committee recently held a virtual panel of EM Administration Fellowship Directors and Co-Directors. Get key points from the conversation as well as other important

Prehospital Care , Administration & Operations

Using Home-Based Community Paramedics to Optimize Emergency Department Utilization for High-Risk Elderly Patients

2/12/2022 Nicholas Cozzi, MD, MBA , Gilbert Nelson, DO , Michael J. Rushton Jr., DO , Philip M. Fennema, EMT-P, CCP , Chad Barnhart, MD, EMT-P , Sean Anderson , Todd Chassee, MD, FACEP , Jeffrey S. Jones, MD, FACEP

Community paramedicine and mobile integrated healthcare are forming a new paradigm. Using paramedics to evaluate and treat medically complex elderly patients in the home setting could have wide-reachi

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Admin Ops Literature Review , Administration & Operations

Admin & Ops Literature Review: Impact of Urgent Care Centers and Telehealth in the ED

2/12/2022 Javed Osmani , Michael Muradian, MD , Christina Brown, MD , Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA

The development of urgent care centers and telehealth systems has been found to have significant impacts on care in the ED in a variety of ways. These studies highlight some ways in which implementati

Social EM , Diversity and Inclusion , Administration & Operations , Health Care Administration

The Intersection of Administration and Health Equity Panel: A Reflection

12/12/2021 Christina Brown, MD , Joe Gannett, MD , Tehreem Rehman, MD, MPH , Nicholas Stark, MD, MBA

Emergency physicians treat everyone, regardless of social position, race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual identity, or abilities. However, are we treating everyone equally?

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