This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing services. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster. It’s an ideal time to revisit the prior authorization rules and review practices that can quicken approval processes. With the recent news that CMS extended the testing of the Medicare Prior Authorization Model for Repetitive, Scheduled Non-Emergent Ambulance Transports through December 1, 2020, we thought it might be a good time to revisit the prior authorization rules and offer some tips for quick and accurate turnaround in the approval processes.

Appropriately managing insurance claim denials and appeal processes for each type of insurance payer is vital for payment. This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing best practices. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster.

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Ensuring that you’re properly reimbursed for all ambulance transports is critical for maximizing your revenue. While ambulance billing is complex generally, ambulance coding is especially complicated. By following industry standard ambulance coding guidelines, you can avoid billing problems and payment delays, keeping critical cash flowing through your agency. This blog post is part of a series on ambulance billing, offering tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, reduce claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster.

What EMS documentation do you need to prove medical necessity? This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing best practices. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster.

When EMS Billers have a chance to let loose! (But they’re always thinking of work!)

Why is it crucial for ambulance billing experts to understand EMS service levels? This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing best practices. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster.

Hospital-to-hospital ambulance billing can be difficult but not impossible. This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing best practices. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster.

This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing best practices. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster. Why is the Physician Certification Statement (PCS) for non-emergency ambulance services so challenging for EMS billing? The challenge is real because you have to rely on the facility requesting the non-emergency ambulance services to make sure the PCS is filled out properly by the right person and on-time. It helps when your EMS Dispatch/Intake staff have a good relationship with the facilities and can collect the PCS before the crew leaves the station, but even then, there can be obstacles when individuals coordinating the non-emergency ambulance transport don’t have a clear understanding of why or when a PCS is required.

Ambulance billing best practices start at dispatch. This blog post is part of a series that addresses ambulance billing best practices. Our ambulance billing blog series highlights tips and insights to help you improve ambulance billing efficiency, lower ambulance claim rejections, and get reimbursed faster. Finding a productive ambulance billing groove will help your EMS agency improve performance and increase revenue.