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Important Links
Coding/ Billing / Payment
- Ambulance Fee Schedule
- Zip Code to Carrier Locality File - Updated 1/3/2013 [ZIP, 4MB]
- Zip Codes requiring +4 extension - Updated 11/15/2012 [ZIP, 1KB]
- 2012 End of Year Zip Code File [ZIP, 4MB]
- Electronic Billing & EDI Transactions Medicare information on electronic transactions under HIPAA
- The latest HIPAA codes are available at the Washington Publishing Company (WPC) Website.
Public Use Files
Enrollment
Education
CMS Manuals & Transmittals
- Manuals
- Internet-Only Manuals (IOMs)
- Medicare Benefit Policy Manual - Pub. 100-02, Chapter 10 - Ambulance Services [PDF, 159KB]
- National Coverage Determinations (NCD) Manual - Pub. 100-03
- Current Medicare Claims Processing Manual - Pub. 100-04, Chapter 15 - Ambulance [PDF, 487KB]
- Historical (Pre-Transition to the Ambulance Fee Schedule) Medicare Claims Processing Manual - Pub. 100.04, Chapter 15 [PDF, 981KB]
- Ambulance Services Transmittals
- Transmittals
Policies/Regulations
- Quarterly Provider Updates
- AFS Regulations and Notices
- Guidance on Beneficiary Signature Requirements for Ambulance Claims [PDF, 33KB]
- Information Guidance for Ambulance Suppliers and Providers [PDF, 139KB] : "The Medicare Ambulance Benefit & Statutory Bases for Denial of Claims" and "Ambulance Transports & ABNs"
- HIPAA - General Information
- Service Furnished to Undocumented Aliens
Medicare Secondary Payer
National Provider Identifier (NPI)
- Information for Medicare Fee-for-Service Providers for the National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI)
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