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The eMatchPhysicians Blog 
Raise for ER Staff May Come from Stimulus Coffers
Posted on: Friday, May 22, 2009
A 10% Medicare reimbursement increase to emergency department staff, including on-call specialists who often don’t get paid for emergency care, is on the table for lawmakers. The hope is to turn emergency care from being an underfunded community service to a center that pays fairly and well for attendant staff.
Emergency centers have seen an uptick lately in people who are trying to avoid health care costs by using emergency services due to layoffs and loss of benefits. Emergency staff across the US are trying to keep up with the demand, according to a poll conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians. More than 88% of the over 1700 physicians surveyed were treating patients that were refused treatment somewhere else. The same patients are putting off things like checkups and ongoing medical care, leading to more severe results once they do get to emergency.
The hope is that the billions of dollars saved by spending money to upgrade health records can be set aside to fund the increase. The figure that is currently being floated is around $12 Billion in overall government savings on Medicare by the proper implementation of electronic health records. The only question is how the savings will be spent on other areas; this remains a big question mark that health care agencies are gunning for some answers on quickly.
More can be read in the article over at Modern Healthcare.
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