Apr 15, 2020 | Ambulance Services, Medicare, Non-Emergency Medical Transport, Patient Transport
When a patient needs help getting to the hospital or requires transportation for other medical services, they might be concerned about the availability of insurance coverage. When it comes to Medicare, what is and isn’t covered can be confusing, particularly when it...
May 30, 2018 | Ambulance Services, Medical News, Medicare, Non-Emergency Medical Transport
Access to care may be in jeopardy for some dialysis patients as a Medicare cut is looming on the horizon for ambulance reimbursement. The new Medicare reimbursement rate may fall below a company’s cost of providing ambulance transport services to patients. Medicare...
Jan 29, 2016 | Ambulance Services, Emergency Response, Non-Emergency Medical Transport
If you are considering EMT training, there are several important tasks and responsibilities that you need to know when treating a patient. In EMT training, an EMT needs to learn to assess whether the patient is sick or injured and to what degree. An EMT quickly and...
Jan 13, 2016 | Ambulance Services, Non-Emergency Medical Transport
The Medicare program last year implemented a pilot program in three states, including South Carolina, in response to the increased use of nonemergency ambulance transports between 2002 until 2011. Private ambulance company owners in South Carolina have become...
Oct 28, 2015 | Non-Emergency Medical Transport, Patient Tips, Patient Transport
The life you save with CPR will most likely be someone you love. Yet most Americans do not know how to perform CPR if a loved one goes into sudden cardiac arrest. Seventy percent of Americans feel helpless in an emergency medical situation because they either do not...
Oct 27, 2015 | Long Distance Transport, Non-Emergency Medical Transport
The widespread flooding and state of emergency experienced recently in South Carolina caught many families with elderly and ill loved ones off guard. Below are a few tips to help you prepare for possible relocation and/or evacuation if you have elderly, handicapped or...
