Legislation and Funding
Legislation and funding issues always affect EMS budgets and operations. Use this topic to find out how the latest economic news is affecting EMS.
2019 was a paradigm-shifting year for the EMS industry and profession – one that will set the pace for the next decade’s worth of ambition and work
Follow these five steps to save time, ensure accuracy and submit the data CMS requires to prevent a 10% reduction in EMS reimbursement for an entire year
An EMS social worker describes how a new program in Texas is serving patients while decreasing 911 calls
Is your department properly identifying reporting and returning overpayments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services?
The director aims to have 94 percent of the state access to an air ambulance within 30 minutes
More funding is needed in the county’s capital budget to replace gear and renovate fire stations
The council voted to fund the new service after years of inconsistent emergency service
Reinstating the Illinois Public Duty law may be warranted, but not because of the case that led to it being abolished by the state Supreme Court
The long-awaited rule mandates that all health care providers receiving Medicare reimbursement return identified overpayments within 60-days or face Federal False Claims Act liability
The law will help reduce the time it takes to get the critical medication to a person having an anaphylactic reaction
The “public duty rule” provides responders broad immunity from lawsuits stemming from their on-the-job actions
A new jury will decide if Patricia Del Vecchio was the victim of disability discrimination and retaliation when she was fired in 2009
The Public Safety Officer’s Benefit Program has left some first responders or their families waiting for years to get payments
Leadership of the organization should make the decision that grant funding is a revenue development strategy that makes sense for the organization as a whole
The significant funding, workforce and leadership challenges facing rural EMS agencies were discussed at National Rural EMS Conference
Key reasons include seriousness of medical problems and the lack of access to other medical providers
National Rural EMS Conference attendees asked to identify unique attributes and barriers to success
Without acknowledging fault, Good Samaritan Hospital settled for $450,000 and agreed to follow protocols to properly release homeless patients
EMS officials from a nearby agency said they responded as fast as they could to the man in cardiac arrest
The charge against Jeffrey Lynn Brennaman is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine
Follow these rules to help your EMS agency or fire department take the next step in success with grant applications
The bill will give 100 percent of the monthly salary earned by deceased first responders to spouses for their lifetime
North Dakota EMS officials meet to solve the declining pool of volunteers, which is the largest subsidy to EMS
Hospitals have made a variety of policy and procedural changes to get patients in and out of the emergency department faster
Sebastian Isaksen pleaded guilty to carjacking, vehicular manslaughter and DUI
Zika virus has been looming all winter, but local governments can get ahead of the problem as mosquito abatement season begins
Our co-hosts discuss the week’s news and the benefits of an online EMS education
Is it occupational discrimination to exclude private EMS providers from LODD benefits?
A senator who voted against the bill at the committee level attached a minority report, slowing it from being taken up for debate on the Senate floor
The bill would recognize PTSD as a work related diagnoses and will be voted on by MPPs tomorrow; the four unions combined represent nearly 8,000 paramedics
All local government EMS providers and volunteers killed after Nov. 1, 2015 are eligible for the benefits
Veteran paramedic Jason Hunt demonstrated the use in an effort to get a bill passed that would require high schools to have AEDs on campus
