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Advancing Medicine and Patient Safety

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

  • Reduce ED boarding and crowding

  • Prevent violence against ED teams

  • Strengthen and protect EM workforce (scope, due process, burnout, physician autonomy, bans on noncompete clauses)

  • Protect fair payment for ED care (fee schedule, Medicaid, pursue national security funding, etc.)

  • Stop abusive insurer practices, such as downcoding, NSA evasion, prudent layperson violations

  • Defend EMTALA; enact liability shields for EMTALA care; and pursue strategies for accounting/tax considerations for EMTALA-related care

  • Ensure deductibles are collected from insurers and shift deductible collection to insurers

  • Improve rural access to ED care

  • Preserve and strengthen ACA coverage

  • Ensure full access to evidence-based care for pregnancy-related emergencies

  • Advance innovative ED care/payment models

  • Strengthen trauma and pre-hospital systems

  • Reduce firearm injury and violence with evidence-based policy

  • Expand effective ED substance use care

  • Track proposals to expand insurance coverage programs

  • Support advance care planning

  • Repeal Medicaid IMD exclusion

  • Support interoperable, interstate PDMPs

  • Promote affordable meds for ED patients

  • Address drug shortages affecting ED care

  • Promote comprehensive violence prevention and intervention initiatives

  • Support anti-human trafficking protections

  • Create National Bureau for Firearm Injury Prevention

These are key areas where ACEP and NEMPAC are focusing their advocacy efforts and resources and is not intended to be an exhaustive list.

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