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Delaware County EMS seeks direction to adopt ‘insurance-only’ billing, to refund inadvertent patient payments
Summary
County EMS directors told commissioners the department meets federal safe-harbor criteria for insurance-only billing and asked for direction to formalize policy; staff said billing was paused, refunds will be issued to patients who paid deductibles and the county will return with a formal resolution.
Delaware County Emergency Medical Services on Feb. 24 told the Board of Commissioners the county meets the federal Safe Harbor criteria allowing the department to adopt ‘‘insurance-only billing’’ for all transported patients and asked the board to direct staff to draft a formal policy or resolution.
Jeff Fischel, director of Delaware County EMS, told the board that after a change of billing vendors the county reviewed state and federal rules, worked with outside counsel and the vendor QuickMed Claims, and concluded the county ‘‘absolutely meets all the requirements of the Safe Harbor Act, to do what we should be referring to as insurance only billing.'' He described insurance-only billing as billing the patient’s insurer so the individual does not receive a bill.
Fischel…
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