EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 8 - Treatment The “Best” of the Ambulance Billing Services blog Two years ago we put together a “Documentation 101” series of eleven educational blogs, covering what we determined to be the fine points of writing an effective Patient Care...
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 6 - Signs and Symptoms The “Best” of the Ambulance Billing Services blog Two years ago we put together a “Documentation 101” series of eleven educational blogs, covering what we determined to be the fine points of writing an effective...
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Part 5 - Arrived on Scene and Chief Complaint The “Best” of the Ambulance Billing Services blog Two years ago we put together a “Documentation 101” series of eleven educational blogs, covering what we determined to be the fine points of...
EMS Patient Care Report Writing | Documentation 101 | Patient Demographics The “Best” of the Ambulance Billing Services blog Two years ago we put together a “Documentation 101” series of eleven educational blogs, covering what we determined to be the fine points of writing an effective Patient Care Report. Since...
Movement Barriers and Medical Necessity Outside-the-Norm Questions Our office receives questions from our EMS agency clients, periodically, regarding patients that have some kind of movement barrier connected to the treatment/transport scenario. These are the patients that have some sort of physical or structural challenge that exists between where they reside...
Is Your EMS Agency Experiencing Payer Mix Shuffle? It’s happening now… There’s no doubt healthcare in America is being changed daily. The Affordable Care Act (of you may refer to it as “Obamacare”) is changing the face of the healthcare and the health insurance landscape in America. How is all...
Effectively Obtaining a Signature in the Field We Get It As EMS providers, we understand that one of the least favorite things you do in the field is to obtain a patient’s signature. From the standpoint of an EMS field provider it often seems like an unnecessary requirement, a burden...
Adding EMS Routines? 3 Key Questions to Ask Prior to Taking the Leap Increase volume. Increase cash flow…not so fast! As an EMS billing contractor, we increasingly are contacted by our clients about the pros and cons of adding routine/non-emergency ambulance transports to the daily repertoire. It’s a big decision....
Choosing an ePCR Program that Fits Happening Now! If you follow EMS communications either online or in print, by now we’re sure you’re aware that two competing electronic Patient Care Reporting (ePCR) companies have recently locked horns in patent court over what one company asserts is a patent infringement by...
Understanding the Medicare Prior Authorization Demo Project Repetitive Scheduled Non –Emergent Ambulance Transports The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) just announced that they will pilot a demonstration project to pre-authorize Repetitive Scheduled Non-Emergent Transports. Repetitive Scheduled Non-Emergent Transports are defined when the same patient is transported three or...