Announcements

OFFICE STAFF RECEIVES CERTIFICATION

Two members of the Greater Valley EMS billing team recently received certification from the National Academy of Ambulance Coding as Certified Ambulance Coders.  Linda Nichols and Beverly Randall completed the training over a period of eight weeks.  The GVEMS team was among the first in the state to earn certification.

The course consists of approximately thirty hours of training, entirely online, divided into a total of 23 individual courses. It covers core knowledge topics of ambulance billing, including basic anatomy, physiology, terminology, proper interpretation of dispatch, patient care documentation, proper ambulance claim coding and submission, specific payor issues, proper management of the follow-up process, and compliance issues including fraud and abuse and HIPPA.  Competency was achieved with a quiz after each module and a final exam that took nearly two hours to complete. 

Linda Nichols lives in Nichols, NY and has worked at GVEMS for eight years.  Bev Randall lives in Smithboro and has worked at GVEMS for nearly six years.