Apple Health (Medicaid) Provider Alert
Attention Ambulance Transportation providers:
Effective for dates of service on and after March 12, 2020, the Health Care Authority (HCA) is temporarily adding modifier CR for catastrophe/disaster-related ambulance transports related to COVID-19.
- When transporting suspected or confirmed COVID-19 cases or when transferring non-COVID-19 patients to clear beds in a hospital for COVID-19 cases, providers must include modifier CR (catastrophe/disaster-related) in addition to any other required modifiers.
- The claim must include a comment in the claim notes field indicating the transport was related to COVID-19.
See HCA’s Information about novel coronavirus (COVID-19) webpage for updated information regarding COVID-19.
This update will be reflected in the April 1, 2020 version of the Ambulance Transportation Billing Guide.
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