Do You Remember the HIPAA BAA? By Chuck Humphrey, B.A., EMT-B, CAC, CACO, CADS, * It was 2003… When the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 finally became a reality with regards to the relationship between a healthcare provider of service known as the Covered Entity and contracted service providers called the […]
Remember that HIPAA NPP Thing? Out of Sight, Out of Mind EMS, like all other healthcare disciplines, has its fair share of paperwork. Unfortunately, where most healthcare providers work in an office with administrative staff, you’re expected to be clinicians AND administrators tasked with completing paperwork, distributing forms and even getting signatures – all while […]
Ready for Visitors? Open Doors Spring is here and that probably means that the doors to your station will be open for some much-needed fresh air. We need to be aware that the public we serve may show up at our stations and offices from time to time. When that happens, will we be ready? […]
Sign-In Please! “Will the next mystery guest sign-in please?” Back in the sixties there was this popular TV show that began with this question. The viewer got to see who the celebrity was based on the person’s signature and the contestants had to guess who the person was by asking questions about the person. Signatures in […]
2 Ways to Use the Internet to Promote Your EMS Billing Program The Digital Age We are completely immersed in technology today. The Internet, mobile technology and the digital portability of everything we do has taken over our world as we know it. But, does your EMS billing program look more like 1999? If Windows […]
Documenting Incidents for Public Places/Stand-By Events We are asked… Here at the billing office we often are asked questions about documenting EMS incidents that take place in public places and many times during stand-by events. There are the events where your EMS agency is engaged such as high school sporting events, community events such as […]
Headlines Teach HIPAA Lesson News or Violation? Last week the sports world was shocked when a rising National Football League star suffered a tragic accident. While celebrating the 4th of July holiday, New York Giants phenom Jason Pierre-Paul lost a finger in an accident involving fireworks. It was a tragic event that now clouds the future for the […]
Sign-In Please! “Will the next mystery guest sign-in please?” Back in the sixties there was this popular TV show that began with this question. The viewer got to see who the celebrity was based on the person’s signature and the contestants had to guess who the person was by asking questions about the person. Signatures […]
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 then, the series has been […]
The Next Big Change- ICD-10 Sit up and take notice! Sit up and take notice! This one’s all you. The content of this blog space is about a new coding initiative. So right now we’ll bet your thinking… “Awesome! Enhanced has this thing under control. Good for them.” Because coding is a billing company thing. […]
