Today is my 35th birthday and soon I will take unpaid parental leave for the second time. But I will never stop fighting for a world in which my kids have access to comprehensive parental leave. 💫💫

35million priorauths submitted to Medicare.gov #MedicareAdvantage in a year - assuming 5 min/each and $20/hour of staff time (underestimated since this is physician/RN/admin blended time) that’s $58million of just labor cost.

Not including denials/appeals…

Kimi Chernoby, MD JD MA Looks like POLITICO decided to include a picture of a certain prominent EMTALA nerd in their write-up...
politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

Today, Idaho was at the Supreme Court arguing that hospitals should be allowed to deny pregnant women the emergency medical care necessary to save her health or life if that care includes an abortion.

ER doctors and nurses should be freed to give care, to save lives and provide medical treatment to anyone who needs it — without politicians coming between patients and emergency care #BansOff

🎉 Big change from U.S. Department of Transportation:

If your flight gets delayed or canceled, airlines now have to refund you automatically in CASH.

Refunds cover:
- Delayed flights (3+hrs domestic, 6+ hrs int’l)
- Airport changes
- Added connections
- Service class downgrade
- Accessibility changes

I tend to be pretty stoic abt my work despite how personal it is, but hearing the court debate whether states must allow a small subset of health-saving abortions hit today. It took me 4 high-risk pregnancies in 4 years to get my 2 amazing kids. 1/2

Emergency access to abortion care can be the only way to save the lives of people experiencing complications caused or exacerbated by pregnancy. More than two dozen leading medical organizations urge #SCOTUS not to weaken #EMTALA . Read the full statement: bit.ly/3xUtGbG

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but…

Yes, medical residents are once again exempted from being paid overtime.

See p. 378 of the final rule PDF:

YES! My co-author, ER doc, and friend! Check out our The Atlantic piece, which might have been the first to make the argument that the Biden administration should create the exact policy it did. That policy is now before the Supreme Court. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

This one’s for the EMTALA nerds

Shortly after the fall of ‘Roe v. Wade' in 2022, Skye Perryman (she/her) Greer Donley & Kimi Chernoby, MD JD MA sounded the alarm that far-right extremists had set their anti-abortion sights on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. time.com/6208656/aborti…

Lol criminalizing transmission of Bacterial Vaginosis is everything you need to know about non-medical people legislating health care

lawandcrime.com/high-profile/b…

EM docs, do you love EMTALA and have you always wanted to go to a Supreme Court rally? Now is your chance!! Join us to rally for EMTALA on 4/24!

act.nwlc.org/a/emtala-rally

📣TODAY'S THE DAY!📣

Opill® is officially on sale online starting NOW—no Rx or ID required. We know there's still work to do to ensure OTC birth control pills are accessible to EVERYONE who wants them, but we just got one step closer!🎉

This genius substituted ‘erectile dysfunction’ for ‘menopause’ in the intro to that new Lancet editorial and I’m howling.

BREAKING: After days of publicly claiming to support IVF in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court ruling, Senate Republicans just blocked my legislation to protect access to IVF nationwide.

Reproductive justice is economic justice. Restricting one restricts the other & the more extreme a state’s restrictions, the more its economy suffers.

To those who shared your stories with us, we thank you. We must codify Roe & protect reproductive freedom. #NoRightsToSpeakOf