CMS Posts Final Ambulance Data Collection Instrument
CMS Posts Final Ambulance Data Collection Instrument
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the final version of the Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection Instrument. The Instrument is the guidance and mechanism by which CMS will request data from those ambulance service suppliers and providers selected in year one of the sampling.
The posting of the final version of the Instrument follows the release on November 1 of the final rule on the development of an ambulance data collection system and subsequent release on November 2 of the list of the ambulance service suppliers and providers selected in year one to provide their data. To access the list by NPI number click here and to access the list by state click here.
The AAA will keep you posted of new developments with the implementation of the data collection system as well as educational opportunities.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), cost data collection, National Provider Identifier (NPI)