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County EMS to press hospital partners on non-emergent transfers after vendor flags medical-necessity concerns
Summary
Local EMS leaders raised concerns that some scheduled transfers may lack medical necessity and that hospitals may be documenting minimal interventions to justify higher-level billing; EMSMC offered compliance support and will pull examples ahead of a Tuesday meeting with the hospital.
During a routine account review, county EMS leadership raised operational and billing concerns about hospital transfers and whether some scheduled transfers meet medical necessity criteria.
Participant 1 described a meeting scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. with hospital representatives to address transfer practices, saying the agency frequently handles scheduled non-emergent transfers without corresponding…
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