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The Window of Opportunity- Insurance Info and Signatures

The Window of Opportunity- Insurance Info and Signatures The Best Time With all the changes that are happening in the healthcare industry in the United States right now, more than ever it’s important that EMS field providers engage patients to collect demographic information, especially insurance information, in the field. The best time to obtain information […]

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Let’s Take a Walk!

Let’s Take a Walk! Walking, Medical Necessity and Billing Join us today as we take a few minutes to explore medical necessity issues surrounding patients who can ambulate and how that fact alone may affect billing for an ambulance transport. Medical Necessity Any claim for payment billed for ambulance transport must meet a medical necessity […]

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Hop Aboard the ICD-10 Train!

Hop Aboard the ICD-10 Train! It’s coming… By now, if you’re a regular reader of these blog posts, you are well aware that ICD-10 is coming. As a reminder, ICD-10 is short for the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision. You can certainly look at our blog archives and check in with our full explanation […]

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Billing for ALS Assessments

Billing for ALS Assessments Often misunderstood EMS billing is a science all of its own. One of the often misunderstood topics is when and how to properly bill for an ALS Assessment. Today’s blog serves to educate our clients and friends who read this space regarding when and how to bill for an ALS Assessment. […]

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Documenting and Billing “Brain Attacks”

Documenting and Billing “Brain Attacks” CVA CVA- Cerebral Vascular Accident or what we most commonly refer to as a “stroke” can be one of the most challenging and life threatening emergencies that we handle in EMS. The scenario is literally a “brain attack.” When part of the brain is damaged or destroyed because it’s deprived […]

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Community Paramedicine and “The Little Guy”

Community Paramedicine and “The Little Guy” The Buzz… Read anything EMS-related today and you’ll probably see that Community Paramedicine is all the buzz. In fact, it’s a bit worn out already as a topic and this “thing” that it is hasn’t even hit full stride. There’s no doubt that anyone in EMS can see that […]

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Discovering the Weakness about “Weakness”

Discovering the Weakness about “Weakness” Common Scenario If we earned a dollar for every “weakness” response we’ve handled over the years, collectively we could more than adequately fund every EMS system in the United States with the newest trucks, latest equipment and all providers would be driving some expensive European luxury car. But, now that […]

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Effective ePCR Program Use

Effective ePCR Program Use In Memory of the “Bubble Sheet” There’s no doubt that the introduction of the ePCR (Electronic Patient Care Report) software to the EMS industry has taken us to a new level of efficiency. The ePCR is a great “Tool of the Trade.” R.I.P. the “Bubble Sheet” of old which was often […]

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The Drama of Documenting Trauma

The Drama of Documenting Trauma Making you sweat? Do traumatic incidents make you sweat? Probably. Does documenting traumatic incidents make you sweat more? Most likely. The sheer amount of “stuff” that surrounds our trauma calls many times overwhelms us. The very nature of the run- auto crashes, industrial accidents, severe falls with complications or the […]

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I Can’t Breathe!

I Can’t Breathe! Why this subject? We’ve heard it dispatched a whole bunch of ways… shortness of breath, respiratory distress, dyspnea. If you’ve been in the ambulance business long enough these calls are second nature and they occur a lot. So, why tackle this subject in an ambulance billing blog? Simple answer… just because we […]

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