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MIPS 2023: Prepare Now to Avoid Financial Penalties
The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), passed in 2015, was a transformational law. It eliminated the flawed sustainable growth rate formula (SGR) that was used to set Medicare...
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“Emergency!” A TV Series That Transformed Pre-Hospital Care, Turns 50
This year marks half a century since the 1972 debut of the television series “Emergency!” In that time, pre-hospital care has become exponentially more effective at saving lives, in part, due to the...
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Case Report: Unintentional Ingestion of Isobutyl Nitrite Causes Nearly Fatal...
Introduction Isobutyl nitrite, commonly known as “poppers,” is inhaled recreationally to elicit euphoria and sexual arousal. It is readily available in adult novelty shops, in video stores, and online....
View ArticleRegistration is Open for ACEP22 in San Francisco!
Make plans to join us Oct. 1–4 for the 2022 ACEP Scientific Assembly in the beautiful Bay Area. Take this opportunity to connect with your peers at the world’s largest and most prestigious emergency...
View ArticleNow Accepting ACEP23 Course Proposals
As we start our countdown to ACEP22 in San Francisco, we’re already thinking about ACEP23 in Philadelphia! ACEP’s Educational Meetings Subcommittee is now accepting course proposals for the 2023...
View ArticleThe Emergency Department After the Fall of Roe: Are You Prepared?
Abortion is one of the safest and most common outpatient procedures performed in the United States. One in four women have an abortion in their reproductive lifetime.1 Yet restrictive abortion laws...
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How the Scene Unfolded in Uvalde
When Gilberto Arbelaez, MD, arrived for his shift at Uvalde Memorial Hospital on May 24, he hit the ground running as usual. Though Uvalde, Texas only has 15,000 residents, Memorial has an emergency...
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Wyoming Has a Different Kind of Bounceback Problem
Makenzie Bartsch, MD, was entering her third year of her emergency medicine residency in the summer of 2021 when her medical school leaders called a meeting with her and the other emergency medicine...
View ArticleGun Violence: Treating the Root Cause
Everybody dies in the summer. Want to say your goodbyes, tell them while it’s spring. I heard everybody’s dying in the summer, so pray to God for a little more spring. These are the words of Chicago...
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Simulating the Rural Emergency Medicine Physician
The landscape of medical education is evolving. Medical schools are transitioning from full days of lectures and printed copies of Harrison’s to the new age of small group, peer-directed learning with...
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A Mid-Year ACEP Overview with President Dr. Gillian Schmitz
Speaking with Dr. Gillian Schmitz as she continues her tireless work at the College, we reviewed hot topics like violence in the emergency department (ED), mental health, and the future of the...
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ACEP Clinical Policies Committee Guideline Update
In 2021, the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) published an update of their 2012 management guideline on upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB).1,2 The updated guideline included a total of 16...
View ArticleACEP Now Wins APEX Grand Award
ACEP Now was recently recognized with an APEX Award for Publication Excellence. Our October 2021 issue, featuring a cover story on the Surfside condo collapse, won an APEX Grand Award (top honors) in...
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Case Report: The Woman with the Swollen Left Arm
Case FIGURE 2: An anatomic illustration of the thoracic outlet. A 19-year-old, left hand dominant female presented to the emergency department (ED) with a chief complaint of a swollen left arm that...
View ArticleSelf-Managed Abortion: Legal Considerations for Emergency Physicians
An excerpt from our Medical Editor in Chief Dr. Cedric Dark : As you read our August issue, may also notice a theme emerging from some of the other pieces in this issue: they touch on controversial...
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Firearms and Emergency Department Safety
An excerpt from our Medical Editor in Chief Dr. Cedric Dark : As you read our August issue, may also notice a theme emerging from some of the other pieces in this issue: they touch on controversial...
View ArticleHow to Network at ACEP22
Building relationships is key to making new connections and developing productive opportunities within our specialty, but it requires getting outside our comfort zones. Professional networking any...
View Article2023 Documentation Guideline Changes for ED E/M Codes 99281-99285
On July 1, 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA) released a preview of the 2023 CPT Documentation Guidelines for Evaluation and Management (E/M) services. These changes reflect a...
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2022–2023 Emergency Physician Compensation Report
The Southeast region’s numbers. (Click to enlarge.) Two and a half years into the COVID-19 crisis and no doubt you are thinking the job market should be returning to normal, right? Not so fast . . ....
View ArticleEmergency Medicine Workforce Entry & Attrition: 2013–2019
Since publication of the multi-organization workforce report led by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), graduating emergency medicine residents have feared an empty job market.1...
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