Ambulance Billing

Ambulance Billing Best Practice: Ensure Hospital-to-Hospital Ambulance Transport Reimbursement

Ambulance Billing & EMS Best Practices

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.

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Ambulance Billing Best Practice: PCS Do’s and Don’ts for Non-Emergency Ambulance Services

Ambulance Billing & EMS Best Practices

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.

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Ambulance Billing Best Practice: Billing Reimbursement Starts at Dispatch

Ambulance Billing & EMS Best Practices

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.

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Ambulance Billing Best Practice: Insurance Verification Tips that Result in Payment

Ambulance Billing & EMS Best Practices

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.

Topics: Ambulance Billing EMS Best Practices

CMS 855B Enrollment Best Practices for Ambulance Billing

Ambulance Billing & EMS Best Practices

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.

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