5 Timely EMS Billing Tips for Navigating 2021
(7 min read) Have you ever lost your glasses only to find them on top of your head? The habit of putting them there has become so routine,...
Maggie Adams, President, EMS Financial Services
Maggie Adams is the president of EMS Financial Services, with over 25 years’ experience as a business owner and reimbursement and compliance consultant. Known for a practical approach and winning presentation style, Maggie has worked with medical transportation providers and billing companies of all kinds to provide auditing services, assess their billing for best practices and support their billing and documentation training efforts. “Like” EMS Financial on Facebook, follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram or for more info, contact Maggie directly at maggie@ems-financial.com or visit www.ems-financial.com
Tips for EMS Agencies to Resolve Today's Patient-Pay Accounts
Everywhere I go, ambulance providers, billing companies, and billers ask, “Why do patients think that ambulance service is free?” Across...
Look Who’s Paying for Treatment without Transport
How Efforts at the State Level Are Blazing the Trail for Community Paramedicine Reimbursement
Guarding Against (More) Revenue Loss
By Maggie Adams
4 Tips for Maximizing Billing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(3 min read) Using your software tools to maximize billing efforts during these difficult times may not be top of mind right now, but I...
Three Ways for Billing Departments to Handle Financial Hardships
Written by: Maggie Adams (3 min read) Self-pay accounts are an ongoing frustration for billing departments. The best billing system can’t...
The Never Quite Forgotten Compliance Risk
(6 min read) Medicare usually pays the largest portion of ambulance claims. But when viewing medical transportation - ambulance combined...
Accounts Receivable (A/R) Management: Working With Patients and Third-Party Payers
(7 min read) The most common question I get is, “Why do our accounts receivable keep growing?” Problems with unpaid claims, denied...
Do Your Own Internal Audit to Avoid External Review (and Reduce Denials)
(5 min read) Lately it feels like ambulance providers are getting yelled at from Medicare and the OIG at every turn – “Medicare Paid Twice...
EMS Operations, Documentation & Billing
It's all about the numbers Welcome to 2018, a year of numbers that will influence operations, billing, documentation and compliance....
The Importance of Documentation Compliance
What is the quickest way to get EMTs and paramedics to roll their eyes? Tell them how important their documentation is to reimbursement,...
3 Ways to Improve Your EMS Billing Management
Today we discuss the many small steps ambulance providers can take to improve operations and get paid for transports. Actions in dispatch,...
Why, How, and When During recent client audits, we found an insurer who had underpaid two clients. Naturally, the clients were thrilled to...
Is it more cost effective to outsource your EMS billing or do it in-house?
Want to Get Paid? Ensure Field Crews Complete Compliant Trip Reports
What is the quickest way to get EMTs and paramedics to roll their eyes? Tell them how important their documentation is to reimbursement,...
EMS Operations, Documentation, and Billing Is All About Analytics
Welcome to 2019: a year of numbers that will influence operations, billing, documentation, and compliance. 35: This number reflects the...
The Community Paramedicine Payment Evolution
As a community paramedicine (CP) program is born, the questions are how to fund and launch the initiative. Once CP takes off and proves its...
Documentation Compliance in the Real World
What is the quickest way to get EMTs and paramedics to roll their eyes? Tell them how important their documentation is to reimbursement,...
Keys to Better EMS Billing Management
Tips for Improving Operational Efficiency and Cash Flow Today, we discuss the many small steps ambulance providers can take to improve...
Compliance in EMS is Going to the Dogs!
There’s a great cartoon with a dog and his owner. The owner says, “Max, you’re such a good dog! You’re a pretty boy. I love you, Maxie!...
Ambulance Claims Audits: Why, How & When
During recent client audits, we found an insurer who had underpaid two clients. Naturally, the clients were thrilled to learn they were...
I talk often about the changes of 2014 and the likelihood for higher claims denials. Today we discuss tracking and avoiding denials. Now,...