CMS's new payment model, – dubbed the Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport Model, or ET3 – will make it possible for participating EMS agencies to partner with qualified healthcare providers to deliver treatment in place (on-scene or via telehealth) and with alternative destination sites (such as primary care doctors’ offices or urgent-care clinics), and still be reimbursed for their services.
The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the importance of treat-in-place approaches to use community paramedics to assess and treat non-emergent patients at home with the use of telehealth technology, or to transport to alternate destinations to reduce the impact on hospital resources.
As EMS moves away from a transportation service, the EMS1 treat in place topic contains the latest news, videos, podcasts and analysis on treat-in-place programs and reimbursement.