HC Compliance Essentials

2 Ambulance Billing Compliance Checklists

Checklist #1 helps you ace FL 80 & Checklist #2 keeps the RACs away. If you’re like many hospitals billing for ambulance services, you’re missing a little-know corner of the UB-04 form that’s crucial to getting paid. “Whether it’s the…

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What Ambulance Services Are Excluded From SNF Consolidated Billing?

Question: So the OIG has advised CMS to audit SOME ambulance services for Part A SNF residents, which are incorrectly billed to Part B. What ambulance services are excluded…

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Audit Alert: Ambulance Services for Part A SNF Residents

Many ambulance services for Part A SNF residents are being billed to Medicare twice — once to Part A under Consolidated Billing and once to Part B. And that mistake could have caused $12.7 million in improper payments in 2006, says…

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