Per CMS: Dear Ground Ambulance Providers and Suppliers, Please attend these upcoming Zoom webinars: October 28: Reporting revenue November 4: Hospitals and other providers – We encourage other organizations to […]
CMS Announces Prior Auth Ambulance Transports for Texas
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on August 26, 2021, that it will expand its prior authorization for repetitive, scheduled non-emergency transportation to the state of Texas […]
CMS Delays Ambulance Data Collection Program
a Per Matt Zavadsky of MedStar Mobile Healthcare: CMS is delaying the data collection and reporting period for ground ambulance organizations selected to participate in year 1 for two years […]
Sixteen Texas EMS Agencies Selected for Medicare’s ET3 Program
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on February 27, 2020, that 16 Texas EMS agencies were selected to participate in CMS’s new Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport […]
Medicare’s Upcoming Educational Data Collection Events
Click here for the February 20 call, which focuses on reporting volunteer labor for the new data reporting system. Click here for the March 12 call, which focuses on public […]
Texas HHSC’s Response to TEMSA’s ET3 Request
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) submitted its interest in Medicare’s new Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) program in a letter dated September 17, 2019. The Centers […]
Medicare Announces Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) Model
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the ET3 model earlier today. Per CMS: Emergency Triage, Treat, and Transport (ET3) is a voluntary, five-year payment model that will […]
Texas Exempt from Medicare’s Latest Ambulance Moratorium
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) extended the moratorium on the new enrollment of non-emergency ambulance services in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for another six months in a […]
CMS Listening Session on Ambulance Data Collection
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will hold a listening session on June 28, 2018 to discuss the ambulance data collection program, which was created by the Bipartisan […]
CMS Releases Guidance for Dialysis Transport Cuts
Click here to review Congress’ February budget bill, which extended Medicare’s ambulance add-on payments. The add-ons were offset by future cost reporting and cuts to dialysis transports. Brian Werfel will […]