Browsing: Health Policy

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Health Policy , Events & Activities , Leadership and Advocacy Conference

Wrap-up: ACEP Legislative Advocacy Conference

8/1/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA , E. Page Bridges, MD
Wrap-up: ACEP Legislative Advocacy Conference This year's iteration of the ACEP Legislative Advocacy Conference and Leadership Summit (LAC) took place May 3-6 and was exceptional. For many in emergen
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Health Policy , Advocacy , Affordable Care Act

Supreme Court Upholds ACA

6/26/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA
Supreme Court Upholds ACA The Supreme Court on June 25 ruled in the case of King v. Burwell, upholding a major provision of the Affordable Care Act.  In a 6-3 decision, the court sided with Secretary
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Health Policy

Cutting the Check: The Money Trail in the ED

6/12/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA
Cutting the Check: The Money Trail in the ED Has a patient ever asked you, “How much will this visit cost me?” Have you ever wondered the same thing? The world of billing is complicated, but it's ext
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Health Policy , Leadership and Advocacy Conference , Events & Activities

2015 ACEP Legislative Advocacy Conference and Leadership Summit

4/30/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA
2015 ACEP Legislative Advocacy Conference and Leadership Summit On the Health Policy Horizon The first day of spring has passed, and that means the 2015 ACEP Legislative Advocacy Conference and Leade
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Advocacy , Health Policy

A Call to Advocacy

4/30/2015 Joshua Enyart, DO
A Call to Advocacy As my shift is about to start, I look at the board to see what's new and what may be signed out. There's a drunk patient in bed 5, a psychotic patient in 19 in restraints, over in
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Health Policy , Disaster Medicine

A Review of U.S. Disaster Preparedness Programs

2/14/2015 E. Page Bridges, MD
A Review of U.S. Disaster Preparedness Programs This fall, the first cases of Ebola were diagnosed and treated in the United States. Although the spread of this disease fell far short of the disaster
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Health Policy

Health Policy 101: Intro to Terminology

1/8/2015 Elizabeth Davlantes, MD
Health Policy 101: Intro to Terminology Health policy can be a bit of an alphabet soup, especially when it comes to the way that the government pays for care. Abbreviations abound; ever wonder what a
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Health Policy , Med Student

Health Policy Statistics 102: Medical Students Perceptions and Policy Education

1/8/2015 Vidya Eswaran, MD , Ronnie Ren
Health Policy Statistics 102: Medical Students Perceptions and Policy Education Previous data has shown that nearly half of graduating medical students felt that their medical school provided inadequ
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Health Policy

Mandatory Quarantines of Health Workers

1/7/2015 Jasmeet Dhaliwal, MD, MPH, MBA
Mandatory Quarantines of Health Workers Responding to public fears regarding Ebola transmission, governors in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Illinois, Georgia, Florida, California, and Maine have
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Health Policy

The Roll-Out of Health Insurance Exchanges: From Disaster to Success

10/15/2014 Sarah Hoper, MD, JD, FACEP
The Roll-Out of Health Insurance Exchanges: From Disaster to Success On October 1, 2013 U.S. health insurance exchanges opened to enrollees. Individuals were eligible to use the exchanges if they wer