The EMS Consultants Legal Advantage Program is an exclusive membership program designed to offer our clients additional value added benefits to help improve your overall compliance and improve your operations.  As a legal advantage client, you will be granted access to a wide array of compliance policies and programs, contract templates and review, training programs, products and services discounts, as well as direct access to our consultants for specific questions you may have.  Please refer to the section below for more information relating all of the benefits offered with this membership.

Value Proposition

• Review, approve/amend and update your HIPAA Compliance Program
• Install and implement a customized Medicare Compliance Program, based on OIG’s recommendations for your ambulance service, to also include annual updates
• Annual external audit of your billing procedures (post-payment review)
• Annual review of your documentation policies and procedures
• Free training materials for your EMT/Paramedics (updated annually)
• Free training materials for your billing staff (updated annually)
• Free phone consultations with Chris Kelly or Rick Tibbetts
• Free contract reviews (for Medicare, Federal Regulation, Nursing homes, Hospitals and HIPAA Compliance)
• Free review of your personnel policies and protocols
• Discounts on audit, overpayment and ALJ appeals (normally 30%, only 20% for members)
• Up to 10 letters per year at no charge (examples: letters to hospitals/doctors regarding sharing health information; letters to nursing homes regarding PPS payments and contracting requirements; letters to competitors regarding price reduction limitations; letters to Medicare/Medicaid and OIG regarding rules clarifications; etc.)
• Email notification of EMS related policy or rule changes and an explanation of how they will affect you
• One free admission to our conference and seminar
• Discounts on EMS Consultants Data Storage Service (20% off)
• Members only section of our website where you will have access to our exhaustive database of EMS related publications (CMS program memos, carrier manuals, article reprints, etc.)
• 20% discount on legal fees (current rate of $200/hr. reduced to $160/hr.)
• Discounts on EMS Consultants software products

Call us with any questions you have, and let us know what we can do to help. All of these benefits are yours as a member of the Program, but you have to let us know what you need and when you need it!