{"id":2453,"date":"2012-06-19T03:30:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2012-11-28T20:30:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:30:56","slug":"questions-about-payment-for-paramedic-services-such-as-paramedic-intercept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/questions-about-payment-for-paramedic-services-such-as-paramedic-intercept\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions About Billing for Paramedic Services such as Paramedic Intercept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2499\" title=\"Paramedic Intercept ASM Aetna Ambulance\" src=\"http:\/\/asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paramedic-Services-199x300.png\" alt=\"Paramedic Intercept ASM Aetna Ambulance\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paramedic-Services-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Paramedic-Services.png 319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>Why did I get two bills, one from the ambulance service and one from the paramedic service?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many patients and families express confusion over the concept of a \u2018Paramedic Intercept\u2019 and wonder why many health insurance companies, including Medicare, will not pay for such a service.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Paramedic Intercept is a service provided during a medical emergency, most often in a rural area, where the ambulance operated by the patient\u2019s town is staffed with EMTs. EMTs provide what is called Basic Life Support (BLS) while paramedics provide what is called Advanced Life Support (ALS).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did I get two bills, one from the ambulance service and one from the paramedic service? Many patients and families express confusion over the concept of a \u2018Paramedic Intercept\u2019 and wonder why many health insurance companies, including Medicare, will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/questions-about-payment-for-paramedic-services-such-as-paramedic-intercept\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,46],"tags":[331,327,330,329],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}