EMS Magazine Monthly Insider for January
This month’s “EMS Magazine Monthly Insider” features author G. Christopher Kelly as he discusses his new column debuting in EMS Magazine, Emergency 4-1-1. He explains the focus of the column: “EMS has two distinct sides: patient care and the business of running an ambulance service,” he says. “There’s a need for a place dedicated to the business side of the industry, and I hope you find that place here.”
Chris is an attorney who has written on topics such as compliance issues and Medicaid regulations. Starting in this January issue, he will examine these topics as well as tackle other legal issues in EMS. Listen to the podcast to find out more about Chris, his involvement in EMS, and his future plans for this column.
In addition to this podcast and Chris’s new column, we direct readers to the following articles he prepared for EMSResponder.com on recently released Office of Inspector General reports. These discuss the findings of two OIG studies of the ambulance industry: one that found $402 million in overpayments to the industry in general (mostly for nonemergent services), and another that found a $21 million overpayment related to in-patient transports.