Harvard’s looking for an academic EM physician to be the director of an effort to study and develop
Protocols for Oncologic Emergencies.
What a turning point for our field of this turns into something big. New Fellowship?
Looking at ABEM’s new certifying exam requirements, I was just wondering if every emergentologist was skilled and comfortable in all these procedures & USs and documented appropriately enough for reimbursement just how much more financial upside our specialty would have.
Just want your honest thoughts please, not interested in the jokes/shit talking
Hi!
Would someone share please thank you!
I want to know y’all’s experiences and thoughts. performing and interpreting a POCUS is a procedure that is reimbursable, you would think with how much we do it we’d make a lot more money like a GI doing a colonoscopy or ENT doing a flex lary. Rads gets paid for interpreting an XR why can’t we for POCUS (where we don’t even need a technician?)
I’d assume the same thing goes on for ICUs like im sure Crit attendings would LOVE to bill and make more for their POCUS.
I asked ChatGPT how much we could make per scan and it said the below like why do we not capture this?
FAST exam: ~$25–60
Cardiac echo limited: ~$30–80
Biliary: ~$30–70
DVT study: ~$40–100
Renal/bladder: ~$25–60
Procedural guidance (central line, abscess drainage, etc.): can add additional billing opportunities
EDIT:
Sounds like there’s income to be made but infrastructure’s the problem, maybe an AI overseer to ensure image quality and indication? If if we do RUSH/eFASTs and can get compensated for those that’s a step in the right direction without butting heads with Rads, admin always complains about ED losing money well shit this is a way to increase revenue