Browsing: Advocacy

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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: We Need Some Bullet Control

3/12/2020 Mitchell Peterson, MD
Death toll 62% higher when LCMs used -- high fatality mass shootings at a higher rate in non-ban states whether or not an LCM is used. Just some of the stark statistics in this report that bring this
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Editorial , Advocacy , Leadership

Emergency Medicine Residents Oppose the Sale of Graduate Medical Education Slots

2/11/2020 Dhimitri Nikolla, DO , Hannah R. Hughes, MD, MBA , Allison Beaulieu, MD , Haig Aintablian, MD , Nehal Naik, MD
Read the joint statement from the All-EM Resident Organizations and Students group (AEROS) takes a stand on GME slots.
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: The Best Medicine Isn't Medicine At All

2/6/2020 Kenneth Kim
It is clear from this study that frequent ED users are a population with many interdisciplinary needs, and integrated data systems can help identify needs that might be otherwise obscured when focusin
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Opinion-Editorial , Advocacy

President's Message: What Can We Do When a Residency Closes?

2/2/2020 Hannah R. Hughes, MD, MBA
EMRA President Dr. Hannah Hughes asks, "When the incoming class of EM residents open those envelopes this spring, how many will be plagued by the fear of a program’s insolvency? What are we - their se
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Surprise, Surprise

1/6/2020 Chloé Woodington, MD
A look at California's efforts to take on the "Oh no!" of OON (out-of-network) provider bills who delivered care at an INN (in-network) facility. The solution changed negotiations between docs and ins
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Health Policy , Advocacy

Making Sense of Graduate Medical Education Funding

12/16/2019 Christopher Clifford, MD , Ashley Tarchione, MD
The crux of this article: Actively advocating for GME funding is the responsibility of all physicians, regardless of where they are in training, so the future of health care and safety of patients is
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Health Policy Journal Club , Health Policy , Advocacy

Health Policy Journal Club: Emergency Docs, Advocate for Medicaid!

12/6/2019 Nishad A. Rahman, MD
The encouraging findings from this study? Medicaid expansion was successful in that repeat users shifted their ED use toward higher acuity conditions – that is, conditions for which EDs were designed.
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Advocacy

Finding My Voice

8/14/2019 Katherine Dowdell, MD
Regardless of where you are in your medical training or your level of experience with advocacy, know that you have a unique insight to some of the most fundamental issues in your community. You have a
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Health Policy , Advocacy

Making Sense of Balance Billing

4/8/2019 RJ Sontag, MD
One of the most hotly contested topics in health policy right now is the issue of balance billing, which can leave patients with exorbitant bills while emergency physicians' services go unpaid. Learn
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Health Policy Journal Club , Advocacy , Health Policy

Health Policy Journal Club: Under-Utilizing CT Scans in Brain Injury

12/6/2018 Matthew J. Christensen, MD, LT, MC, USN
Just over half of brain injury patients got recommended scans; uninsured fared worse.