“Dear Santa”…a letter from the Billing Office We intercepted… It’s one of those things that happens. A piece of mail floated into our billing office mailbox just this week and behold it was a note to Santa from a billing office far, far away. Good ol’ Uncle Sam’s delivery guys...
Dissecting the Ambulance Inflation Factor for 2018 AIF Announced The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Ambulance Inflation Factor (AIF) for Calendar Year 2018 (CY 2018). Once again this year, the AIF is positive so let’s take a look at how we’ve arrived at this adjustment. CPI-U...
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...
Mixing Business and Billing: EMS Documentation Impact on Billing and Reimbursement Periodically we re-post useful information authored by those we respect in the industry. Recently, Dan Pedersen of Page, Wolfberg and Wirth (www.pwwemslaw.com) shared this excellent posting on EMS1.com. The post is filled with great information regarding EMS documentation and its impact...
Dissecting “The Misunderstoods”- Part II- Billing for SCT Bloggers note- early last year we posted a popular 2-part series talking about a subject we affectionately called “The Misunderstoods.” Because we periodically field questions about these two levels of service and the complexity of documenting properly to obtain maximum reimbursement, we’re...
Dissecting “The Misunderstoods”- Part I- Billing for ALS 2 Bloggers note- early last year we posted a popular 2-part series talking about a subject we affectionately called “The Misunderstoods.” Because we periodically field questions about these two levels of service and the complexity of documenting properly to obtain maximum reimbursement,...
Do You Have the Tools You Need for Future EMS? Changing World of EMS It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that we live in a world of constant change. Like the rest of the world, there is a changing world of EMS and it’s happening very fast....
Transporting SNF Residents: Choosing the Proper Payer This week the industry experts at Page, Wolfberg and Wirth (www.pwwemslaw.com) posted an excellent article in the EMS Legal Update on EMS1.com regarding how to choose the proper insurance payer when transporting Skilled Nursing Facility residents by ambulance. The information is so important that...
Of Revalidations- Part II- Why So Much Personal Information? Here we go again… In this second part of our two-part series talking about the revalidation process, we focus on one of the biggest questions we receive here in our billing office… “Why do I have to provide my personal information?...
Medicare Revalidation – What is it and Why do we do it? “Why do we have to do this?” Five years ago Medicare suppliers and providers received the wonderful gift called Medicare Revalidation. Since that time, our billing office has been asked the same question over and over. “Why do...
