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Policy Measures and Reimbursement for Emergency Medical Imaging in the Era of Payment Reform: Proceedings From a Panel Discussion of the 2015 Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference
Author(s) -
Berdahl Carl,
Schuur Jeremiah D.,
Fisher Nancy L.,
Burstin Helen,
Pines Jesse M.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/acem.12829
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , reimbursement , payment , government (linguistics) , health care , panel discussion , quality (philosophy) , medical emergency , health care quality , medical imaging , emergency medicine , family medicine , nursing , radiology , finance , business , linguistics , philosophy , epistemology , advertising , economics , economic growth
The Affordable Care Act ( ACA ) of 2010 is expanding the use of quality measurement and promulgating new payment models that place downward pressure on health care utilization and costs. As emergency department ( ED ) computed tomography utilization has tripled in the past decade, stakeholders have identified advanced imaging as an area where quality and efficiency measures should expand. On May 12, 2015, Academic Emergency Medicine convened a consensus conference titled “Diagnostic Imaging in the Emergency Department: A Research Agenda to Optimize Utilization.” As part of the conference, a panel of health care policy leaders and emergency physicians discussed the effect of the ACA and other quality programs on ED diagnostic imaging, specifically the way that quality metrics may affect ED care and how ED diagnostic imaging fits in the broader strategy of the U.S. government. This article discusses the content of the panel's presentations.