Nick Rizer, MD
@nwrizer.bsky.social
EM Physician and Health Policy Fellow
Policy Nerd & Pizza Snob
Policy Nerd & Pizza Snob
Great, but also frustrating paper. Nearly every ED is drowning in the boarding crisis, but this is not an ED problem; it's a hospital crowding problem. Once inpatient occupancy crosses the threshold (~90%), flow slows and backs up into the ED (and the waiting room). 1/
🚨 Inpatient hallways: the backup plan no one’s backing.
New study shows inpatient hallway boarding is underused, even when it’s available.
Why aren’t we using inpatient hallway boarding?
📖 Read more at www.annemergmed.com
#EM #EDCrowding #EDBoarding #BoardingCrisis #HealthSystems #HealthPolicy
New study shows inpatient hallway boarding is underused, even when it’s available.
Why aren’t we using inpatient hallway boarding?
📖 Read more at www.annemergmed.com
#EM #EDCrowding #EDBoarding #BoardingCrisis #HealthSystems #HealthPolicy
August 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Great, but also frustrating paper. Nearly every ED is drowning in the boarding crisis, but this is not an ED problem; it's a hospital crowding problem. Once inpatient occupancy crosses the threshold (~90%), flow slows and backs up into the ED (and the waiting room). 1/
Most days it felt like it would never end, but all of a sudden residency is over. Intern year feels like a lifetime ago, but I will never forget my first shift in the Hopkins ED. I arrived over an hour early. To do what exactly? I am still not sure.
July 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Most days it felt like it would never end, but all of a sudden residency is over. Intern year feels like a lifetime ago, but I will never forget my first shift in the Hopkins ED. I arrived over an hour early. To do what exactly? I am still not sure.
Pleased to share our new paper on industry research payments in EM.
Key findings:
Funding is increasingly concentrated among a small number of PIs
Payments are increasingly flowing through non-covered entities (NCEs)
Read more here: www.jem-journal.com/article/S073...
Key findings:
Funding is increasingly concentrated among a small number of PIs
Payments are increasingly flowing through non-covered entities (NCEs)
Read more here: www.jem-journal.com/article/S073...
Trends in Industry-Sponsored Research Payments to Emergency Medicine Principal Investigators
Industry-sponsored research payments (ISRPs) to physicians through non-covered entities
(NCEs) are a widespread practice in the United States. However, there has been limited
literature examining this...
www.jem-journal.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Pleased to share our new paper on industry research payments in EM.
Key findings:
Funding is increasingly concentrated among a small number of PIs
Payments are increasingly flowing through non-covered entities (NCEs)
Read more here: www.jem-journal.com/article/S073...
Key findings:
Funding is increasingly concentrated among a small number of PIs
Payments are increasingly flowing through non-covered entities (NCEs)
Read more here: www.jem-journal.com/article/S073...
There’s a lot of news stories about the new administration, but don’t miss this one by @ddiamond.bsky.social. IMO the Medicare PFS is most under-appreciated and overlooked item in the health policy toolkit. wapo.st/3Zix1fKout
RFK Jr. weighs major changes to how Medicare pays physicians
Kennedy and advisers say the system drives doctors to perform costly surgeries rather than combating chronic disease.
wapo.st
November 22, 2024 at 7:11 PM
There’s a lot of news stories about the new administration, but don’t miss this one by @ddiamond.bsky.social. IMO the Medicare PFS is most under-appreciated and overlooked item in the health policy toolkit. wapo.st/3Zix1fKout