Avoid Common Errors in Ambulance Transportation Billing

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Avoid Common Errors in Ambulance Transportation
Billing

• Medical Billers and Coders

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An ambulance is a part of Emergency Medical
Services (EMS), which is a billable event and
most of the insurance companies such as Medicaid
and Medicare compensate for it. Billing and
coding for ambulance services may be complex
owing to different modes of transportation like
air, water, and ground. Apart from this,
reimbursement of ambulance transportation rates
could vary with a large margin depends on the
types of services offered to each patient.
However, errors in any kind of medical billing
could impact negatively the relationship with
your patients. As per the article published in
the WALL STREET JOURNAL anticipated that
approximately 30 to 40 of bills have errors.
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• There are some common errors in ambulance
  transportation billing are as follows
• Coding Errors
• Procedural Errors
• Fee schedule errors
• Without wasting much time lets jump on to the
  discussion of errors one by one.

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1. Coding Errors Billers are trained in such a
way that they are able to understand the run
sheets and select the desired codes, which
identifies the condition of the patient properly
in order to make proper reimbursement. Experience
d medical coders are comfortable with their
workflow. As a result of which they do not spend
more time observing new codes in order to make
sure that they are utilizing the most appropriate
codes. Additionally, they do not undergo the
process of crosschecking after entering codes.
Nevertheless, with thousands of Current
Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes, it is normal
to select false procedural code when finishing
claims, specifically with the addition of new
codes that could result in coding errors.
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2. Procedural Errors Medical billers are
assigned with keeping healthcare service
providers on the strong financial ground via
satisfying patients with proper and consistent
processing of their claims. In order to lower
claim denials, a team of expert medical coders,
which can keep an eye on diagnoses, outpatient
procedures, and thousands of codes for medical
procedures will definitely help you. Moreover,
the familiarity of this team with Medicare as
well as ambulance transport services insurance
guidelines will minimize or nullify the
procedural errors.
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• 3. Fee Schedule Errors
• There are about four methods of billing enabled
  by carriers presently as follows
• Suppliers are compensated at a comprehensive base
  rate showing all mileage, services, and supplies.
• Suppliers are paid at a base rate with different
  charges for not only mileage but also for
  supplies
• Suppliers are compensated at a base rate in order
  to add supplies with a designated charge for
  mileage
• Suppliers are compensated at a base rate in order
  to add services mileage but designated charges
  for supplies.

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In order to avoid fee schedule errors, ambulance
transportation billing services must aware of the
above methods. Moreover, the analysis should be
done to avoid errors in fee scheduling and find
out the requirement for itemized billing or one,
which allows mileage and base rate
only. Operational errors are considered common
errors in every industry. As far as Medicare is
concerned, optimizing billing and coding errors
could impact positively the revenue cycle.
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