April 22, 2025

8:30 am - Registration, Exhibitor Set up and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - National and Medicare Update

Brian Werfel, Werfel and Werfel, PLLC

10:15 - 10: 30 am - Break (Visit the Vendors)

10:30 - National and Medicare Update Continued

Noon - Lunch (included)

1:00 - 1:45 pm - AAP and PA EMS Provider Foundation Annual Meeting

1:45 - 2:00 - Conference Sponsor: First States Financial Services

2:00 - 2:30 pm - Best Practice: 

Filing Complaints with the Department of Health/Department of Human Services when the Skilled Nursing Facility won't pay for services provided

Dean Bollendorf, Vice President, HealthFleet Ambulance

2:30 - 3:15 pm - Best Practice: 

What happens when you have a cyber intrusion?  What are your first steps? Are you prepared?

Gary Watters, Executive Director, AMED 

3:15 - 3:30 pm - Break (Visit the Vendors)

3:30 - 4:45 - Billing Skilled Nursing Facilities:  A review of the Office of Long Term Living Direction from 2019

Kimberly Walk, AmbCoach, Inc.

Kimberly Barge, Division Director, Provider Relations, Bureau of Fee for Service, Dept of Human Services

Ryan Dorsey, Director, Community Living Initiatives, Bureau of Policy and Communications Managment, Office of Long Term Living, Dept of Human Services

5:00 - 6:30 pm - Reception at the Bears Den 

Light Hors D'oeuvres and two drink tickets will be provided

April 23, 2025

8:30 am - Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 am - Novitas Solutions (Virtual)

Gail Atnip, Provider Outreach and Education Specialist

10:00 - 10:15 am - Break (Visit the Vendors)

10:15 - 11:30 am - EMS and Municipalities in Pennsylvania – Understanding the Challenges and Working Toward Solutions

Jerry Ozog, MPA, EFO CAE – Public Safety Specialist, Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors

All emergency medical services agencies in Pennsylvania must interact with local governments. Elected and appointed officials have specific authority to ensure EMS and provide funding as they deem necessary. Too many times EMS boards and leaders only communicate with local government at budget time or when a crisis occurs. Positive relationships with officials are essential to providing the best possible service to your community. This session will identify why unclear expectations between public officials and leaders of EMS can lead to problems. Solutions to those problems may be easier than expected.

11:30 - 12:30 pm - Lunch (included)

12:30 - 1:30 pm - AAP Legislative Agenda

Join AAP President, Gary Watters and Legislative Committee Chair, Don DeReamus as they outline the blueprint of solutions, including a statewide fee schedule, that EMS needs to continue to exist in the state.  As we plan for a press conference and "day on the hill" in May and why you should be talking to your state legislator regularly.

1:30 - 1:45 pm - Break (Visit the Vendors)

1:45 - 3:00 pm - Pennsylvania EMS Law Update – Balance Billing, Mutual Aid and More

Doug Wolfberg, Esq., Page, Wolfberg & Wirth, LLC 

There have been lots of developments on the EMS legal front in PA – and the attorneys at PWW have been in the thick of it.  Doug Wolfberg will provide an update on where balance billing issues stand under Pennsylvania state law.  He’ll also talk about the shifting interpretations of the PA EMS Act and whether ambulance services have an obligation to respond outside their primary service areas when called for mutual aid.  There will also be updates on some PA-specific cases, business reporting requirements and more.

3:00 - 3:15 pm - Break (Visit the Vendors)

3:15 - 4:30 pm - EMS Documentation Improvement Strategies for EMS Leaders

Doug Wolfberg, Esq., Page, Wolfberg & Wirth

The quality of EMS clinical documentation – or lack thereof – is continuously identified as one of the biggest challenges EMS agencies face.  While it’s important to provide quality documentation training and education to EMS providers, it is equally important for EMS leaders to understand the key role they play in improving documentation by “the troops.” In this session, Doug Wolfberg will discuss strategies that EMS leaders can use to lead their providers to produce better documentation, which supports proper billing and reduces organizational liability.