Ambulance Billing
When You Leave a Patient Behind: Refusals, Non-Transports & Best Practices for Documentation WEBCAST ~ 01/18/2012 01:00 PM Eastern Standard Time REGISTER This webcast from JEMS will be presented by Steve Wirth and Doug Wolfberg and will focus on essential documentation points you need to cover with no-transport situations. Whenever you don’t transport a patient, [...]
During the most recent holiday season — the season of giving — the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) actually gave what could be construed as a holiday gift by taking something away. On Dec. 28, 2011, CMS announced that it was delaying what many thought would be a contentious issue — the [...]
CMS Will Delay Enforcement of 5010 Standards Compliance Update courtesy of Page, Wolfberg & Wirth On November 17, 2011, CMS announced a 90-day enforcement “grace period” for compliance with the new HIPAA 5010 transaction and code set standards. This means that CMS will not initiate enforcement action against providers that are not in compliance with the [...]
Top-performing hospitals shared key strategies to a successful organization, including accountability, physician engagement and team approaches, according to a new report released by Health Research & Educational Trust, American Hospital Association (AHA) and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence. AHA conducted site visits and interviewed leaders at NovantHealth in North Carolina, Piedmont Health in Georgia and [...]
To say that the Galloway Township Ambulance Squad is busy is to understate the reality. The squad of 49 paid professionals and three volunteers, all qualified EMTs, use their five ambulances to make approximately 5,000 calls a year. Of that number, they average 60 percent of their calls to motor vehicle accidents and 40 percent [...]
(Reuters Health) – The number of emergency rooms has dropped by more than a quarter over the past two decades, while patient visits have kept rising, researchers said Tuesday. The result is overcrowded ERs that can’t provide optimal care for their patients, according to the new findings, published in the Journal of the American Medical [...]
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