9/11- A Day to Remember We Pause . . . We decided to take a break this week from our current blog series, “Documentation 101” to pause in remembrance of those who gave all on that dreadful day in American history…September 11, 2001. It’s one of those days burned in the memory of every American. […]
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 4c – Dispatch – BLS Level of Service & Routine Transports Welcome to Part 4c in our continuing blog series “EMS Patient Care Reporting Writing/Documentation 101” Part 1: EMS Patient Care Report Writing Part 2: Field Notes Part 3: Patient Demographics Part 4a: Nature of […]
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 4b – Level of Service Welcome to Part 4b in our continuing blog series “EMS Patient Care Reporting Writing/Documentation 101”. Part 1: EMS Patient Care Report Writing Part 2: Field Notes Part 3: Patient Demographics Part 4a: Nature of Dispatch – Emergency vs. Non-Emergency Part […]
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 4a – Nature of Dispatch – Emergency vs. Non-Emergency Welcome to Part 4 in our continuing blog series “EMS Patient Care Reporting Writing/Documentation 101”. Part 1: EMS Patient Care Report Writing Part 2: Field Notes Part 3: Patient Demographics Part 4a: Nature of Dispatch – […]
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 3 – Patient Demographics Welcome to Part 3 in our continuing blog series “EMS Patient Care Reporting Writing/Documentation 101”. Part 1: EMS Patient Care Report Writing Part 2: Field Notes Part 3: Patient Demographics Who is the patient- Spelling is important! Before we go any […]
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 2 – Field Notes Welcome to Part 2 in our continuing blog series “EMS Patient Care Reporting Writing/Documentation 101”. Part 1: EMS Patient Care Report Writing Part 2: Field Notes The Writing Implement Before you do anything else at the beginning of your shift, make […]
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 1 Part 1: EMS Patient Care Report Writing Stick Figures vs. Art… While God blessed me with the ability to effectively put my thoughts into words, He in no way provided me with more than a basic ability to draw things. My artistic level would […]
President Obama Signs Act Extending Ambulance Bonus Payments President Obama has signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 into law. In addition to insuring that thousands of Americans will not be assessed higher payroll deduction taxes for the balance of 2012, most importantly to the ambulance industry it means the […]
Bill to Extend Ambulance Relief Payments for Remainder of 2012 Passes On the coattails… The much anticipated “tax cut” bill has been passed by Congress! Ambulance companies across the United States were holding their collective breath as the temporary Medicare bonus payments of 2% urban, 3% rural and 22.6% super rural were set to once […]
GPCI Decrease Offsets Positive Medicare Increase in Some Geographic Areas The “Yo-Yo” Effect Talk about a “yo-yo” effect of ups and downs surrounding the anticipated new Medicare Ambulance Fee Schedule amounts! You’ll recall we Blogged several times about the Congressional battle that stood to interfere with the extension of the bonus payments. We learned that […]
