Inside One of the Country’s Busiest EMS Stations That Serves the City of Los Angeles

[VentMonkey]

God bless NEMSIS.

 

[EpiEMS]

Not quite. The billing is pretty specific. Just having a medic on a BLS call doesn't automatically allow you to bill as an ALS call. However, you CAN bill the call as ALS 1 if you perform an ALS intervention or perform an ALS assessment. (Which every medic should do, and document as such.)

ALS 2 is when you perform 3 separate medication admins or perform an advanced procedure such as electrical therapy, advanced airway or the like.

Isn't an ALS assessment defined by an assessment conducted by an ALS provider? Or does it have some specific criteria?


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[NPO]

Isn't an ALS assessment defined by an assessment conducted by an ALS provider? Or does it have some specific criteria?


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I've seen some ALS providers provide a BLS assessment [emoji16]

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[VentMonkey]

I've seen some ALS providers provide a BLS assessment [emoji16]

I plead the 5th!

 

[EpiEMS]

I plead the 5th!

Back on topic everybody



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[VentMonkey]

Back on topic everybody.

Fair enough. The LAFD, and Los Angeles county in general sucks at EMS, fin.

 

[NPO]

Fair enough. The LAFD, and Los Angeles county in general sucks at EMS, fin.

And yet it keeps coming up, and we say the same things lol

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[VentMonkey]

And yet it keeps coming up, and we say the same things lol

Yep, I agree. Back to DrP's original post though. It's nothing new, it (most likely) will never change; and yes, they did at one time, and most likely still do have to have other RA's (ambulances) backfill for that station due to shear volume. Couple all of this with the complete lack of drive, desire, and interest in prehospital medicine itself.

My paramedic preceptor did his paramedic internship at another LAFD station the next district up. He told me about their name, and the move ups; this was in the 80's and things haven't changed, so, yeah.