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The future of emergency care is  getting more precarious, due to more complex cases, lower reimbursements  and other stressors faced by emergency departments, according to a new  RAND report funded by the Emergency Medicine Policy Institute. 

Emergency departments are in danger of closing without legislative intervention, according to a new report. Increased violence towards providers, declining reimbursement from payers and higher volumes of complex patients are endangering the future of emergency departments, nonprofit research organization Rand wrote in a report on Sunday. Rand said policymakers must pass legislation to help hospitals navigate the challenges that have surmounted for emergency departments over the years.

America’s emergency rooms are near  the breaking point, causing long wait times and boarding of patients  awaiting care, a new study says. Essentially,  ERs are being asked to serve as health care hubs that offer services  far beyond emergency care, according to a new report from the non-profit  research organization RAND. And they are asked to do this with less money, researchers report.

 The viability of hospital-based emergency care is at risk after facing  epidemics, a pandemic, increased patient acuity and complexity, and  unsustainable declines in payment, an April 7 RAND report found.