Jul/Aug 2009 TAG Line Released

  • CMS Proposes Increasing Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System 2.1 Percent and Decreasing Medicare Physician Fee Schedule 21.5 Percent
  • Most Retail Clinics Are Located In Affluent Areas
  • Hospitals Consider Putting Federally Qualified Health Centers Inside Their EDs
  • Ambulances Make Non-Emergent House-Calls
  • Ambulance Laptops Linked To Hospital Medical Records 
  • California ED Diversion Report Released
  • Most California Hospitals Will Not Meet Seismic Retrofit Deadline
  • Death Rates Following Hospitalization For Heart Attack Decreases
  • Some EDs Unprepared For Recent H1N1 Outbreak
  • First Nationwide Study of Homeless Patients in EDs

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