American Medical Response (AMR), a Global Medical Response (GMR) company, has been selected as a participant to implement the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport (ET3) program in 14 states across America. AMR is the largest participant under the ET3 program with 62 of the total 205 applicant awards. The AMR service areas will cover millions of Medicare beneficiaries.
Global Medical Response’s (GMR) healthcare technology company, Access2Care, has used APIs to connect its medical transport ordering application with Epic, one of the world’s leading providers of health information technology. This time-saving application is already in use by many of GMR’s customers in its ground ambulance division, American Medical Response (AMR).
Deaconess Health System and American Medical Response (AMR) are the first in the nation to integrate their EMR with AMR’s Transport OnLine Ordering System (OLOS) for both emergent and non-emergent patient transport.
Envoy America, a comprehensive program that offers transportation plus assistance and companionship for patients and seniors, announced it has expanded its partnership with AMR’s Access2Care program. Access2Care manages the transportation experience for those receiving non-emergency medical transportation. This ensures that those in need get the right services, at the right time, utilizing a large network of contracted and credentialed transportation providers in each service area.
Access2Care has contracted with AmeriHealth Caritas District of Columbia, a mission-based Medicaid managed care plan serving more than 100,000 residents of the District of Columbia (D.C.) and Lyft, the fastest growing rideshare company in the US, to give members access to convenient and reliable same day and next day transportation.
Cigna-HealthSpring, one of the nation’s leading providers of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, is making it easier for customers in select plans in seven states and the District of Columbia to get to and from their doctors and pharmacies through medical transportation provided by the Lyft transportation network.
Two leading specialists in transportation services have joined forces to make it easier for hospitals, healthcare systems and managed care organizations to offer patients efficient transport services to and from hospital settings and medical appointments.