Burns hopes to improve ambulance billing

At Monday night’s Burns Town Council meeting, Burns Ambulance Service supervisor Brian Eveleth informed council he is looking into switching the service’s billing service in an effort to improve collection rates.

“I have a couple options I am looking at,” said Eveleth. “I’m looking at AMR (American Medical Response) and a company out of Denver.”

The company located in Denver is EMS Billing Services Inc.

Eveleth informed council the recommendation on AMR is not favorable because of that company’s low collection rate, which currently is 35 to 38 percent. Eveleth said EMS’ collection rate is much...