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.

Improve ambulance billing efficiency and lower EMS claim rejections. 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 and lower ambulance claim rejections. Finding a productive ambulance billing groove will help your EMS agency improve performance and increase revenue.

Need to bill and receive payment from Medicare? Discover ambulance billing tips for initial enrollment and for keeping your CMS 855B application up-to-date. In order to bill and receive payment from Medicare, ambulance services must first enroll by completing a CMS 855B application. Unfortunately, initial enrollment isn’t the only time an ambulance service will need to deal with the CMS 855B application. The CMS 855B needs revisited and maintained in scenarios such as provider information changes, reactivation, and revalidation. This post, the first in our Ambulance Billing Best Practices blog series, shares tips and resources that will help in frequent CMS 855B scenarios.

Michelle Corey, AIM Director of Operations, reflects on her admiration for the EMS professionals during EMS Week 2019.

Your EMS operation is an integrated process, so it needs a cleanly integrated system across dispatch, ePCR, and billing. EMS agencies continue to struggle to make ends meet. The cost of EMS patient care continues to rise, while ambulance reimbursement rates continue to disappoint. In addition, Federal and state regulations continue to multiply. When payers and regulators fail to see the immense value EMS brings to healthcare, economical solutions can be hard to find.

Yikes! When the compliance voice is activated, everybody runs. Poor EMS tech!