May 8, 2018
Billing & Administration
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What you need to know
For the past two years, the Department of Justice, through its local U.S. Attorney offices, along with the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG), has been actively investigating fire-based services for improperly billing Medicare for ALS ambulance transports when a BLS level service should have been billed. These investigations are ongoing across the country and involve all sizes and types of fire-based services. …
January 20, 2016
Billing & Administration
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Every ambulance provider should review and update their billing and claims policies and procedures
In September of 2015, the Office of the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report titled “Inappropriate Payments and Questionable Billing for Medicare Part B Ambulance Transports.” The report was a result of a study conducted by the OIG in which it analyzed Medicare Part B claims for ambulance transports from Jan….
