Railroad Medicare Cites 32.6% Error Rate for Second Quarter of FY 2017 Review Complete Yesterday, Palmetto GBA, the Medicare Administrative Contractor for the Railroad Medicare program, announced that they have completed their widespread review of BLS Non-Emergency ambulance service claims from January through March of 2017. This comprises their announced...
The Power of EMS in Politics- Again! EMS “News” In most areas across the United States, EMS is stressed and much of the stress has to do with reimbursement policy at the government level that fails to recognize what it takes to keep EMS going financially. The largest ambulance service...
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...
Freestanding Emergency Rooms and Ambulance Billing – Part II Our Thanks! Welcome to Part II of our series “Freestanding Emergency Rooms and Ambulance Billing.” Our blog posts, this week and last week, is presented thanks to timely reminders passed onto us by Doug Wolfberg of Page, Wolfberg and Wirth. Doug...
Freestanding Emergency Rooms and Ambulance Billing Training Week This week was a training week for our ambulance billing office. Each year we take a full day out of our normal routine, in addition to our ongoing training regimen, to host a representative from the National Academy of Ambulance Coding for...
Flu-Like Symptoms- How to Document? Spring? Spring has sprung…or has it? Given that we just experienced a major east coast winter snow storm just two weeks ago with New England about to get hammered again, it appears that Mother Nature is a bit confused. The Flu! Because Mother Nature is...
A New Age of HIPAA Enforcement – What it Means for EMS by Ryan Stark-Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC (Originally featured in the Zoll Data Blog on March 23, 2017; shared to benefit our clients and readers.) In 2016, the Heath Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) police levied far...
Sharpening Documentation Skills Using Hands-On Training How will they learn? The Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the early church in Rome to encourage the early first-century believers to actively share their faith with others. He used a series of questions to make his point. "But how can they call...
Servanthood- A Tribute to Bill In Tribute We take a detour today from our usual ambulance billing topic to pay tribute to a gentleman giant of EMS. We hope you read on to learn more about this individual who represented the very spirit and mission of what EMS should be...
What Service is Not Available? Inter-Facility Transfers This week’s blog will focus on inter-facility transports. For the most part we’ll discuss hospital-to-hospital transfers where the patient has been treated at one hospital but must move to a different hospital in most cases for care that is not provided at the...
