BREAKING EMS NEWS!  CMS and the RAND Health Care Corporation has released the long-awaited first report detailing their findings and analyses of the Ground Ambulance Data Collection System Year 1 and Year 2 Cohort.  This is a BIG DEAL!  In this episode, w

Join the 3 old guys (aka Chuck, Ed and Gary) for another session of Excuse My Medic. In this session, we discuss the Ground Ambulance Billing Advisory Committee recommendations which, for the most part, can mean good things for our industry IF they are a

CALL TO ACTION- With just a few more days left in 2024, the EMS industry is in danger of losing important Medicare dollars. It's an emergency episode of our podcast...and we need to act now!! Listen in for how you can help today!

The EMS Santa came early this year with a present wrapped in ALS2! We fill you in on the addition of Pre-hospital Blood Transfusion in this episode of the QMC|EMS Board and Collar podcast!

CMS has released the newly calculated Ambulance Inflation Factor for 2025. Chuck breaks down how the feds arrived at the new adjustment in this latest edition of the QMC EMS Board & Collar podcast.

It's been a terrible few weeks weather-wise for our friends to the South. Hurricanes Helene and Milton have wreaked havoc throughout the southeast EMS has been affected as well and we are bringing you up to date on options that EMS professionals have avai

Well, the boys are back together once again for another thought-provoking and informative episode of Excuse My Medic (EM2). This episode features Henry Lewis, Executive Director of the South Carolina EMS Association. Henry was an excellent guest and one

Part II of our second episode looking at the recently released CMS Ground Ambulance Data Collection System findings takes a look at Medicare Fee-for-Service claim trends. Theres the dip for the COVID-19 PHE and a move over time to Medicare Advantage pat

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released two reports resulting from the first-round of data collected from the Ground Ambulance Data Collection System project. Welcome to Part I of a two-part podcast series where well first take a loo

A recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court has trickled down to affect ambulance services. In this episode of the QMC EMS Board and Collar Podcast, QMC retiree Chuck Humphrey details changes in how HIPAA protected personal health information can be shar