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MILWAUKEE — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM-PG) is pleased to welcome Pacific Redwood Medical Group (PRMG) as a member group.

MILWAUKEE — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM-PG) filed suit in the Superior Court of California against Envision Healthcare Corporation. AAEM-PG is responding to the takeover of an emergency department contract at Placentia Linda Hospital, part of the Tenet system. AAEM-PG alleges that Envision, as a lay entity owned by the private […]

MILWAUKEE — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM-PG) is pleased to welcome Sandhills Emergency Physicians as a member group. Sandhills Emergency Physicians is a longstanding democratic group that has provided outstanding services to FirstHealth in North Carolina. Sandhills Emergency Physicians sought out the AAEM-PG for administrative and practice management support that will […]

MILWAUKEE — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM-PG) is pleased to welcome South Bend Emergency Physicians (SBEP) of Indiana as a member group. SBEP is a longstanding democratic group that has provided outstanding services to Memorial Hospital of South Bend. SBEP sought out the AAEM-PG for administrative and practice management support that […]

These problems don’t just infringe on the practice of medicine here and there — they signal the steady erosion of key legal protections designed to keep non-medical professionals from interfering in a physician’s medical judgment, Dr. McNamara told Texas Medicine. “There’s some legendary stuff that they’re doing [to] the practice of medicine.” Read the full […]

AAEM has received more and more calls from emergency medicine groups saying that similar contract negotiations are happening in their institutions, according to Robert McNamara, MD, a professor and the chair of emergency medicine at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in Pennsylvania and the chief medical officer of the AAEM Physician […]

MILWAUKEE — The American Academy of Emergency Medicine Physician Group (AAEM-PG) is proud to announce that Chesapeake Emergency Physicians (CEP) will be joining AAEM-PG as a member of our physician group. AAEM-PG was founded in late 2015 with the goal of putting values that have guided AAEM for over 20 years: fairness, transparency and unyielding […]

This article co-authored by the AAEM Physician Group CMO, Robert McNamara, MD FAAEM, is an extensive review of the problems associated with corporate control of the practice of emergency medicine. It describes many of the reasons why AAEM has embarked on this venture to preserve and restore physician ownership in the practice of EM. The […]

The American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) is proud to announce the newly formed AAEM Physician Group (AAEM-PG). AAEM-PG is an umbrella physician group that will provide consultation and practice services to local, independent physician groups and is actively seeking new clients. Read the full press release. Last updated: February 2, 2016

Picture a cartoon of large fish eating smaller fish until there is only one left. That is what is happening across the United States as large management firms are acquiring small independent emergency medicine groups, a phenomenon complicated by a recent addition to the mix: Private equity or investment banking firms giving those larger groups […]