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ER Call: One Member's Experience
Advocating for His Profession
ER call has increasingly become an area in which APMA's advocacy
experts have been forced to intervene on behalf of members.
" ER call is a growing issue, " said Chad Appel, JD, APMA director
of the Center for Professional Advocacy (CPA). " In some cases,
podiatrists are only called for foot cases, not the ankle and trauma
cases our young physicians need for board certification. In other
cases, they are required to take ER call, but are not fairly reimbursed-or
not reimbursed at all. They wind up seeing Medicaid
patients or uninsured patients. " Appel said the CPA has written
several letters on behalf of individual members and participates in
a third-party call compensation survey to gain access to data on
fair reimbursement.
While the issue has become increasingly prevalent in recent
years, it is by no means a new experience for member physicians.
" Getting call pay for podiatrists was a 30-year process, " said William
Oliver III, DPM, a physician in practice in Lafayette, IN.
Dr. Oliver successfully waged the battle for call compensation at
Franciscan Health Lafayette East (formerly Franciscan St. Elizabeth).
Read his story below to learn more about how he enfranchised
allopathic colleagues and made the case to his administration.
hen I worked to get privileges for podiatrists in
Lafayette where there were none before, a recurring
theme from the MD staff members who were
hesitant to back my efforts was that they feared
podiatrists would not take all the responsibilities of hospital
privileges seriously, particularly requirements of all staff to
take call for emergencies, respond to consult requests within
the required time limits, and [serve] on committees.
When podiatrists were granted active privileges, I was the
only podiatrist on staff for two years. I responded to every
ER call within the required 20 minutes, completed consults
within 24 hours, and served on hospital committees. As
more podiatrists came on staff, I along with hospital officials
made sure all podiatrists were held to the same standards. It
took 30 years to build an eight-person podiatry division of
the orthopedic section of St. Elizabeth that became an integral
part of the hospital triage system, particularly when it
came to diabetic limb salvage. By serving on the Orthopedic
Standards and Bylaws Committees, I was able to catch and
influence changes in policies and procedures that helped to
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