Storm Related Transport Billing Disaster Transports This week’s torrential rains and record flooding here in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania combined with last week’s encounter with Hurricane Irene caused many of our clients to be pressed into completing spur-of-the-moment, evacuation-type ambulance transports. Although these transports are extremely critical to protect patient safety at the height of […]
Will Paid Staffing Solve Our Problems? Not a week goes by… There isn’t a week that goes by it seems that one or more of our clients doesn’t call to inquire about numbers as they relate to pending decisions to add paid staff. It appears that the root of these discussion is new legislation arising […]
Congress Passes Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010 The Health Care Industry, including ambulance services, scored a major victory recently in Congress. On November 30th, the Senate passe Senate Bill 3987 known as the “Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010.” The bill essentially removes most, if not all, health care providers- including ambulance […]
Congress Passes Medicare Ambulance Relief Extensions/Announcement of the 2011 AIF Ambulance Relief Extended for One More Year! We have learned that Congress, today (Thursday, December 9th), passed what’s being referred to as the “physician fix extension.” This extension, meant to cover shortfalls in Medicare payments to doctors that were anticipated in the New Year, also […]
Fractional Mileage Billing is on it’s way! You may have heard… As some of you may already be aware, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced recently that they intend to publish new rules regarding billing for ambulance mileage. If the final rule on the matter is published at the end of November, […]
Do you use your billing reports? Ambulance billing companies like us spend a lot of time and effort on producing reports that reflect the true performance of our clients’ billing programs. The question we ask is; Do clients make full use of these reports? Do you, as a billing client, really understand those reports? Are there […]
Red Flag Rule Information Last week, we sent out an e-mail blast with information to help our clients begin to comply with the “Red Flag Rules”. Enhanced strongly urges all of our clients to use the link on the e-mail you received to access to the Page, Wolfberg and Wirth website to place an order […]
