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.