Category: Medicaid

Back of the Envelope

Posted onAuthorSeth Trueger, MD, MPH2 Comments

Recently there have been quite few notable* “back-of-the-envelope” calculations. The  included one which estimated how much expanding Medicaid would increase emergency care spending: A back-of-the-envelope calculation, using $435 as the average cost of an emergency department visit, suggests that Medicaid increases annual Continue Reading …

Public plans and wait times

Posted onAuthorLaura K. Grubb, MD, MPH, FAAP1 Comment

Merritt Hawkins, a for-profit, physician recruitment and workforce company, recently published a survey examining new patient access to physicians. Specifically, the survey recorded the time needed to schedule a new patient appointment with a physician in 15 major metropolitan markets Continue Reading …

The ACA, Medicaid, and the ED: What’s the Bottom Line?

Posted onAuthorCedric Dark, MD, MPH, FACEP

http://www.aaem.org/UserFiles/Episode14Edited.mp3 In this Policy Prescriptions® edition of the AAEM Emergency Physician Advocates: Legal and Policy Issues in Emergency Medicine Podcast, Cedric Dark, MD MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Baylor College of Medicine, speaks Continue Reading …