Incorporated in 2003, EMS Medical Billing Associates has been providing superior EMS billing and collection services to municipal and private EMS providers in Wisconsin since 1973. Our staff of highly skilled billing professionals is committed to providing our clients with the highest level of EMS/Fire billing and data management services available in the industry at an extremely competitive fee. EMS Medical Billing Associates handles all sizes of services and departments, from large departments like the City of Green Bay Fire Department, to the smaller providers like the Newburg Fire Department. EMS Medical Billing Associates is not just an EMS billing company. We are a Fire/EMS billing and data management solution. Your solution.

SERVICES:

EMS Billing: Whether your department performs its own billing or contracts with an outside billing company, EMS Medical Billing Associates can offer you tangible benefits you're currently not receiving. EMS billing has become a specialty. It is a learned skill that requires a great deal of training and knowledge in order to perform accurately day in and day out. Many departments that handle their own billing may not be aware of the various stages of a billing cycle that need to be attended to, and may only have time to submit initial claims and ignore denials, requests for information, collections and research. Hence, revenues aren't maximized and tremendous amounts of much-needed dollars are left on the table, uncollected.

But more and more departments are contracting with outside billing firms for just those reasons. As a result, departments have seen their revenues soar, while at the same time being removed from the burden of the billing process. A true win-win scenario. Typically, billing services charge a small percentage of what they collect as their fee. However, some billing services charge 12%, 14% and even 17% as their initial billing fee, and it goes even higher if the claim doesn't get paid quickly. Unfortunately, departments are paying that fee without knowing they have an alternative. EMS Medical Billing Associates provides complete EMS and Fire billing services, using state-of-the-art billing and run documentation technologies, with no-cost training, support and monthly reports for a percentage fee in the single digits. There is absolutely no reason to pay more. Call today to find out how to take advantage of our technology, and put the saving back into your budget.

Fire Billing: EMS Medical Billing Associates are experts in recovering maximum reimbursement from insurance for fire-related services. With fire department budgets stretched to the max, departments need to find new forms of revenue generation. More and more departments nationwide are electing to bill for some of their key services, such as:

• MVA Fire Suppression
• HAZMAT cleanup
• Extrication

Training: Since proper documentation is directly tied to maximum revenue generation and regulatory compliance, we consider the training of EMTs vital to the overall success of the department's billing effort. EMS Medical Billing Associates conducts a training session with all EMTs, typically spanning three days to cover all shifts. Lasting 45-60 minutes depending on questions, our extremely informative Powerpoint presentation covers all aspects of proper in-field documentation, from collecting demographic and insurance information to medical necessity and proper narrative writing. Copies of Medicare, Medicaid and commercial insurance cards are scanned and projected on the screen so EMTs know exactly what information on these cards is necessary to obtain, and equally what is not necessary so EMTs don't document unnecessarily.

We have also incorporated a complete overview of CMS's recent changes to the patient signature requirements. We will scan a copy of your current signature sheet and show the EMTs exactly how patients, patient representatives or EMTs should sign for compliance. We have historically seen dramatic, tangible results from this training session, and will repeat it as often as requested for new EMTs and as a refresher.