Code 3 Billing Services Inc.

Telephone: 610-705-3979
Fax: 610-705-3955
Email: code3sales@comcast.net

Imagine achieving the highest cash per transport your organization has ever known.

Code 3 Billing Services has proudly served the Emergency Medical Services industry for over 20 years with unprecedented ambulance billing services and innovative billing and data collection software.

Our diligence and time-tested, proven strategies will bring in more cash per transport, while standing up to rigorous post payment review audits by recovery audit contractors.

Here's what's new from Code 3 Billing Services...

We are proud to announce that all Code 3 billers are Certified Ambulance Coders by the National Academy of Ambulance Coding. As of May 2010, there are only a little over 1000 certified ambulance coders nationwide.

This voluntary certification entails over 30 hours of course work, testing and additional continuing education credits in the areas of Medicare/Medicaid regulations, dispatch, anatomy, physiology and terminology, documentation, beneficiary rules, pre-billing verification, claim production, facility billing, managed care, compliance, HIPPA, internal auditing, claim review, false claims, accounts receivable management, collections, denials and appeals, cash posting and remittance -- as it relates to ambulance billing operations and ambulance accounts receivable managment.

The certification is gaining national attention and has been endorsed by several organizations including TrailBlazers,a Medicare carrier.

The Code 3 Story

Code 3 is a woman owned and operated enterprise whose principals are Linda Quinn and Cindy Cochran. Together, the pair has delivered 32 years of combined experience and exemplary service to our dedicated and prosperous client base.

Code 3 was the first vendor to conceive, propose, and then develop the computerized tripsheet (now known as patient care reports, or PCRs).

In June, 1993, Code 3 invited the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) Emergency Medical Directors from 16 regional offices to attend a presentation at the Hotel Hershey to pitch an idea to eliminate the paper scan form and replace it with direct computer data entry. Interestingly, the directors were curious, but some were resistant to changing from the comfortable bubble scan form. Fortunately, there were some who were not and the rest is NEMSIS history.

Patient care reporting was never intended to be the service or product of Code 3 as our expertise has always been in keen accounts receivable management for the emergency services industry. We developed the software as a billing tool and for the sole purpose of importing data into billing while satisfying the DOH need for their data. We were then poised to prove our point.

By 1994, Code 3 was the first billing service to import data from the PCR including: patient demographic data, diagnosis codes, charges and procedures, origin and destination, and the narrative.

It worked! Billing staff was reallocated to collecting the money owed instead of wasting time keypunching. It also greatly reduced processing costs for both the ambulance service and billing service. A biller can now process 100 bills per hour instead of 8 and spend much more time on accounts receivable management and follow-up.

Code 3 can interface to many excellent PCR software vendors, or your service can try our new NEMSIS Silver certified PCR Software (soon going Gold).

We are grateful to our clients who have put their faith and trust in us for 20 years.

The billing interface is only one of many innovations that make us uniquely qualified to better serve your organization and improve your bottom line.