ACEP is rising to meet the challenges that threaten your livelihood and your patients’ lives. Together, we ushered in a new era of fierce advocacy and emergency physician leadership.
Worked with CMS to create new federal requirements for hospitals to limit overcrowding, including the Age-Friendly Hospital Measure, which incorporates the ACEP Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation (GEDA) framework into care delivery.
Provided comment on and authored more than 160 letters to federal regulators.
Protecting You from ED Violence
Gathered hundreds of your stories to raise awareness about the shocking frequency of assaults with health care leaders, policymakers and the public.
Steady support led to the bipartisan Safety from Violence for Healthcare Employees (SAVE) Act introduction, a bill that would make violence against health care workers a federal crime.
Relentless advocacy including three standing room only Congressional briefings with the American Hospital Association, the Emergency Nurses Association, and American Nurses Association, moving the needle on a critical issue.
North Carolina ACEP was instrumental in a new law that increases hospital security training and requirements, resulting in stronger protections for you on the job.
Empowering You as the ED Leader
Developed a toolkit to help physicians start conversations with legislators about fixing scope of practice issues in their states.
Filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, taking the lead with support from 23 medical societies, to protect the physician-patient relationship and ensuring that all patients receive care consistent with EMTALA obligations. This came in response to Idaho’s strict anti-abortion law.
Using member stories and national and state influence, ACEP help ensure the FTC saw the impact of non-compete clauses. Although later blocked by a federal court, the FTC initially voted to ban these predatory clauses – a move that ACEP strongly supported.
Helped develop the The Physician and Patient Safety Act, which will protect emergency physician due process rights by calling for regulations to ensure physicians have a fair hearing and appellate review before any termination.
Enforcing Employer Accountability
Developed Open Book - a tool that details employer data, group structure, leadership, and policies - to help change the way emergency physicians approach career decisions.
Continued to grow the Independent EM Group Master Class, a resource for entrepreneurial emergency physicians who want to create independent, physician-owned groups.
Transformed the Exhibit Hall at ACEP24, consolidating career resources to better align with ACEP’s corporate practice of medicine policy statement that the physician-patient relationship is the moral center of medicine.
Maximizing Your Paycheck
Public pressure and tireless advocacy from CalACEP and ACEP stopped a major insurer from downcoding in California.
Worked with CMS to extend the telehealth reimbursement framework for years to come, making it easier for emergency physicians to deliver care anywhere.
ACEP is the only EM organization with a seat on the RVS Update Committee (RUC), the influential group that recommends to the federal government how physicians are paid.
Promoting Research and Data to Improve Care and Define Policy
Emergency Medicine Data Institute (EMDI) enabled a $600,000+ Medicare bonus to physicians and provided an advantage in MIPS scoring and more.
Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) provided $1 million+ in funding covering more than 20 different EM topics. ACEP participated in FDA-funded projects about how off-label applications impact outcomes for opioid overdose patients.
Emergency Medicine Policy Institute (EMPI), a group of stakeholders addressing EM issues, funded an upcoming report through the RAND Corporation that will address ED resource capacity and emergency care funding strategies.
