Ambulance Billing Services and EMS Billing Services, \u00a0like any other billing process, \u00a0really just requires some very basic focus on the right things to insure that payments are made timely. It is easy but critical that no bill which\u00a0has a chance of being paid somehow goes unpaid. Whether you do Ambulance Billing and EMS Billing in-house, or use an Ambulance Billing Service or EMS Billing\u00a0Service, the basics of the work do not change.<\/p>\n
EMS Billing and Private Ambulance Billing have some obvious differences such as;<\/p>\n
In the past decade while consulting in the industry, I often converted clients from older systems to more modern software and\/or from older manual processes to more automated processes. I was always surprised and amused at the comments about why the client was not collecting more from their patients and patient’s insurance.\u00a0 There are undoubtedly valid time constraints when using some software and some manual systems, but this is never a valid reason to not be collecting the maximum.\u00a0 Almost always the ABC\u2019s highlighted below were simply not followed. And always had the lost revenue actually been collected, it would have justified some additional overhead to obtain those results, either with more personnel or an investment in more efficient software.<\/p>\n
So what are these ABC\u2019s or basics of the Ambulance Billing process?\u00a0 How do you achieve the process that ensures \u201cNo bill left behind\u201d?\u00a0 Whether you do the billing in-house or use an outside billing company, and whether you use modern more automated software or some older less sophisticated software the process and due diligence is the same.\u00a0 Albeit the time and\u00a0cost to complete the tasks vary based on the tools used. Efficient software might quickly and easily identify unpaid bills or not timely paid bills. Less efficient software might produce a long list of all open bills and you review and identify them manually. Both will allow you to identify unpaid bills, which is a main steps in the process, albeit slower with one tool versus the other.<\/p>\n
The main steps to making sure no bill is left behind unpaid are to ensure the following steps are done timely and every step is done, \u00a0repeating the process forever. In my years consulting in the industry, this is usually where every executive, Fire Chief or owner assured me \u201ctheir biller(s)\u201d do this every time only to discover upon audit that it is not the case.\u00a0 Often with a quick review of the data of accounts and transports, \u00a0unpaid bills were found\u00a0stuck in limbo and not followed up on. \u00a0This results in bills never paid<\/strong> and lost money<\/strong>.\u00a0 And almost always in my consulting, with a little more due diligence they could have been collected.\u00a0 Even more of a surprise to management was that the list could be found by me in minutes<\/strong>. Obviously, the software used impacts\u00a0the level of effort and time to find the records\u00a0and\u00a0it is\u00a0a matter of knowing how to look and what to look for.<\/p>\n The \u201csteps\u201d follow this basic path below, and when done money is significantly improved.\u00a0 With Private companies doing pre-scheduled transports some of this can be even done before you transport, such as insurance verification and eligibility checking, or credit card payments to prevent unpaid transports, not a luxury of most government EMS departments.<\/p>\n Basic Steps that must be completed;<\/strong><\/p>\n In future blogs I will\u00a0drill down into the details of these steps and expand upon\u00a0where the ball gets dropped consistently around the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ambulance Billing Services and EMS Billing Services, \u00a0like any other billing process, \u00a0really just requires some very basic focus on the right things to insure that payments are made timely. It is easy but critical that no bill which\u00a0has a chance of being paid somehow goes unpaid. Whether you do Ambulance Billing and EMS Billing … Continue reading ABC\u2019s of Ambulance Billing and EMS Billing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sharpab.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n