It’s Football Season- Documentation Hints for Sports Injuries Are You Ready for Some Football? Our billing office headquarters is in Pennsylvania. High school football is king in The Commonwealth so many of our clients treat and transport football-induced injuries. Right now, young people everywhere are heading back to school and they are participating in sporting […]
Take Compliance Seriously- Or…It Will Cost You! In the News Recently, some scary EMS articles have been published. Here are some headlines… Fla. Ambulance company to pay 1.2M in federal whistle-blower lawsuit <Company name redacted> settles Medicare fraud suite for 12.7M Ambulance company owner sentenced to prison for fraud Feds crack down on Medicare ambulance […]
Legislative Initiatives Poised to Benefit EMS in Three States PA, NY and MD State lawmakers in Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland have been working on new legislation that has the potential to drastically change the EMS reimbursement landscape. This year has seen a flurry of activity in the chambers of government across these States as […]
Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things Amazing! You are amazing! You- yes, you…Mr, Ms, Mrs…paramedic, EMT, nurse, doctor….ground-, air-based…you are amazing! In case no one told you that in the last week as we celebrate EMS, please allow all of us here at Quick Med Claims to pat you on the back and call you out […]
Medicare Prior Authorization- Part II- Impact! Welcome! Thanks for stopping by for Part II of our blog recap of the findings from the recently published interim evaluation report on Medicare Prior Authorization. Last week, we capsulized the findings as published by government contractor Mathematica Policy Research. This week, we will briefly take a look at […]
Other Methods of Transportation are Contraindicated Medical Necessity Defined We talk a lot about Medical Necessity in the ambulance billing office. Medical necessity and Reasonableness are key in determining whether or not an insurance payer is obligated to pay for ambulance transport, especially for Medicare and Medicaid patients. Title XVIII of the Social Security Act […]
Understanding Ground Ambulance Charges-Part III Ambulance Billing is Different Ambulance billing is different. Really medical billing as a whole is different than any other type of billing or business practice, but ambulance differs at yet another level than even other medical billing disciplines. In any other business line, one makes a product or delivers a […]
Clear. Clinical. Documentation. Bloggers note- we posted this blog almost a year ago to the day. It’s one of those topics that never gets old and the information remains as important as it was the first day we posted it. All of us must keep this important concept in mind when documenting our EMS transports. […]
Winter Flu Season- How to Document? Holidays Behind Us…Enter Flu Season We trust that you had a wonderful holiday season filled with many WARM memories (and we emphasize WARM!) We’re back to our normal routine so let’s dig into a direct documentation topic…. How to document transports that are initiated either directly or indirectly due […]
Gary’s Granola: Fiber for Today’s EMS Professionals Bloggers note- we’re featuring a post written by our Quick Med Claims colleague and retired paramedic, Gary Harvat. This week, he reflects on his 40+ year career… Earthward Bound A few weeks ago I had the unfortunate experience of plummeting to the ground while on a ladder sixteen […]
