CMS required that all carriers implement increases that were signed into law as a part of the healthcare reform bill by July 6th, 2010. Those increases included a 2% across the board increase for urban ambulance services, 3% across the board increase for rural services, and the 3% across the board plus 22.6% increase on base rates for super rural agencies. In addition to these increases the geographical practice cost index or GPCI was upwardly adjusted which will result in further reimbursement increases for ambulance companies. Please contact us today to find out what your new 2010 reimbursement rates are.
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Updated Medicare Ambulance Fee Schedule
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Fractional Mileage - Just Say “No”!
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Medicare again is proposing to require that ambulance services bill fractional mileage rather than rounding up. EMS faces numerous documentation challenges as it is. This would be one more. We urge you to contact Medicare as they are accepting comments on the matter. Please read the proposed regulation HERE.
To make your comments, go to THIS SITE. Click on “Submit a Comment”. Click the first drop-down menu and select “proposed rules” then enter this code in the “search by code or keyword”: CMS-2010-0209-0001. You will see the proposed rule come up on the search results. Look to the right and click on submit a comment.
ABC Technology Town Hall - 2/20/2009
Friday, February 13th, 2009ABC will be hosting an exciting event in West Point next Friday, February 20, 2009. There will be presentations from premier software and hardware companies pertaining to helping your department go paperless with success. Online PCR data entry is the future of EMS patient care reporting. Access and enter PCRs from any computer. Manage and QA calls from any computer and much, much more.
We will be discussing field data, Medicare laws and regulations, and other EMS billing topics. Contact us today if you are interested in attending.