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Tell Congress to Stop the 2022 Medicare Cuts
December 7, 2021It’s Down to the Wire: Tell Congress to Stop the 2022 Medicare Cuts We need your help to urge Congress to take action on the pending and drastic ten percent Medicare cuts coming in January 2022. Emergency physicians will face this cut through a combination of reductions due to sequestration and Medicare’s “budget neutrality” requirement […]
White House Appoints ICEP member Garth Walker for Class of White House Fellows
October 21, 2021ICEP member Garth Walker, MD, has been named White House Fellow, Office of the Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services. He is an emergency physician at Jesse Brown VA Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University. In 2020, Dr. Walker was one of the featured speakers at the ICEP […]
Executive Order 2021-20 Face Covering and Vaccination Requirements
August 27, 2021The Illinois Department of Public Health released a statement on Thursday, August 26th regarding face covers in Illinois. Please click here to read about it.
ACEP Update
August 17, 2021Featured News Senate Passes Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act ACEP is pleased to announce that early Friday morning, the Senate approved S. 610, the “Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act.” This comes on the heels of hundreds of ACEP members joining together to lobby for this legislation during last month’s […]
Training in Opioid Use Disorder for Emergency Departments
July 14, 2021October 13 – December 8, 2021 Every Wednesday from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CST Click here to register and learn more. ECHO is a model used to provide advanced training using video conference technology. This training is funded by a study that is working to improve the treatment of opioid use disorder in Southern […]
Congratulations to All New Electives!
June 22, 2021New Officers: Christine Babcock, MD, FACEP Chicago, IL President cbabcock@icep.org Napoleon Knight, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAPL Urbana, IL President-Elect nknight@icep.org Jason Kegg, MD, FACEP Springfield, IL Secretary-Treasurer jkegg@icep.org Howie Mell, MD, MPH, CPE FACEP Chicago, IL Member-at-Large hmell@ic Re-Elected Board Members: Scott Heinrich, MD, FACEP Chicago, IL sheinrich@icep.org […]
Town Hall Recap Video
June 21, 2021The virtual Town Hall on Tuesday, May 4th 5pm-7pm was a success!!! Thank you to everyone who joined us. If you missed out on the discussion and would like to watch, the link is below. Click here to view the ICEP Town Hall.
ACEP Webinar on Insurance Denials and Downcoding
June 9, 2021Downcoding and Denials: ED Claims and Insurer Policies. Click here to view the slides. Above are the slides presented and here is the link to the recording. Passcode: 2C?F2y4N If you have any egregious examples of denials or downcoding, please share them with Adam Krushinskie at akrushinskie@acep.org.
ACEP Condemns UnitedHealthcare’s New Policy to Retroactively Deny Emergency Care
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) strongly condemns the dangerous decision by UnitedHealthcare to retroactively deny emergency care claims. ACEP firmly believes that the new policy is in direct violation of the federal Prudent Layperson Standard, which requires insurance companies to provide coverage of emergency care based on the presenting symptoms that brought the […]
Nominations for ISMS Councils and Committees – Deadline: June 11, 2021
May 28, 2021The Illinois State Medical Society is in the process of considering council and committee nominations for 2021-2022, and would like to invite your recommendations. Over the past years, the Society has worked hand-in-hand with several Illinois specialty organizations to achieve mutual goals in the state’s public policy arena and with payors, as well as to […]