A new UC San Francisco study challenges that framework by showing that criteria used as a basis to determine the appropriateness of an ER visit and to deny payment is inherently flawed. The study ...

Patients who visit emergency rooms are getting hit with sky-high bills. Spending on an ER visit rose to $1,917, on average, in 2016, up more than 31% from four years earlier.

Each year, 23,005 emergency department visits stem from supplement-use problems, the researchers estimate. Of those visits, an average of 2,154 result in hospitalizations every year.

Editor’s Note: Dr. Anwar Osborne is an emergency room physician and a public voices fellow at the OpEd Project at Emory University. The hospital emergency room is the front door of the health ...

From 1999 to 2010, 26 California hospitals that had emergency rooms shut down, and another 22 closed their emergency rooms but remained open, according to the study.

An Emergency Room Built Specially For Seniors Only infants go to hospital emergency rooms more than elderly patients. For years, hospitals have set up ERs just for kids.

CINCINNATI -- Being rushed to the emergency room can be a scary thing, especially for anyone who doesn't know what's wrong. Some patients have gotten another scare: a bill for the cost of the ...

The Rural Emergency Hospital license Graber and others are working on would increase the government’s reimbursement rates for Medicare and Medicaid patients treated in an emergency room.

The freestanding emergency department at Parkland is 40 yards away from its main emergency room and operates under the same license, according to Michael Malaise, the spokesperson for Parkland Health.

In his Medical Malpractice column, John L.A. Lyddane addresses how the legal duty of the emergency room physician remains a question of law across a spectrum of treatment scenarios.