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Ambulance service switches to newly adopted billing guidelines

The Kimball County Commissioners received an update on the county ambulance service at Tuesday’s meeting.

According to Carla Goranson, ambulance director, the ambulance crew received a total of 49 service calls in the month of September, ranging from falls to seizures. The total amount of charges to patients for the month of September was $23,055.25. The total to date for this year was $302,055.25.

Goranson also discussed the recent changes to their billing requirements. Recently there a change to the requirements, which was formally ICD-9 before Oct. 1, 2015, to new code guidelines an...