Important request from KAPA

From Kentucky Ambulance Providers Association… H.R. 5460, the Medicare Ambulance Access, Fraud Prevention, and Reform Act  was introduced in the House yesterday afternoon by Congressmen Walden, Neal, Nunes and Welch. The American Ambulance Association has been...

An Urgent Request For Kentucky EMS Squads

This is from John Hultgren with KAPA… The Kentucky Army National Guard is seeking information as to the availability of employment for its returning military medics in the civilian sector as Advanced EMTs. They have contracted with Eastern Kentucky University to...

PROTECTING ACCESS TO MEDICARE ACT OF 2014

“PROTECTING ACCESS TO MEDICARE ACT OF 2014”   On April 1, 2014, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014.  The law prevents a scheduled payment reduction for physicians and certain other provider groups that was...

WV EMS Coalition Monitoring Developments on Broker RFP

Last week, the West Virginia EMS Coalition notified our membership that Medicaid had canceled the RFP related to the transportation broker. We have since learned that Medicaid intends to issue another RFP in the near future for a transportation broker. However, the...