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A 2020 study found that reforms introduced by New York in 2014 successfully reduced out-of-network billing for emergency care by 88%. [19] Similarly, after Texas enacted an anti-surprise billing law, the Texas Department of Insurance reported receiving up to 95% fewer surprise billing complaints. [20] [21]
The American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians (ACOEP) is a professional organization of emergency medicine physicians. [1] It was founded in 1975. [2] Active membership is open only to osteopathic medical physicians who have practiced emergency medicine for the past three years and/or have completed an emergency medicine residency approved by the American Osteopathic Association ...
TeamHealth was founded in Knoxville in 1979 by Dr. Lynn Massingale. [4] [5] The company began as Southeastern Emergency Physicians, the predecessor to TeamHealth, when Dr. Massingale, then an emergency medicine physician at the University of Tennessee Medical Center, earned the staffing contract in the emergency department at the medical center. [6]
Medical billing, a payment process in the United States healthcare system, is the process of reviewing a patient's medical records and using information about their diagnoses and procedures to determine which services are billable and to whom they are billed.
American College of Emergency Physicians. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is a professional organization of emergency medicine physicians in the United States. ACEP publishes the Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open (JACEP Open). [1]
The development of Emergency Medicine as a nationally recognized medical specialty began in the 1960s when the number of patients requiring emergency care was increasing. [4] [5] In 1960 emergency medicine was not a recognized medical specialty and emergency rooms were run by on-call physicians of varying specialties. [3]
A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...
Physician's Management. 19, no. 1: 42–6. 2002. "LATE - REGULATORY PRECEDENT - The FTC OKs a Deal That Would Allow a Physician Independent Practice Association to Contract with Health Plans on Behalf of Its Competing Physicians". Modern Healthcare. 32, no. 8: 6.