SAO SOLUTIONS

I accepted the position as the EMS Chief of Lake Jackson EMS and Administrator of Record back in 2008. I called Maxie Bishop who at that time was the Texas State EMS Director. I asked him "where can I find the book?" "What book?", he asked. "The one on how to run an EMS Agency". He laughed... It was at this time I started a journal on what I felt my successor would need as he/she would one day replace me. I started $250,000 in debt and unable to make our first payroll, I wondered, had I made a mistake? By the grace of God, eight short years later $0.00 in debt and $1,000,000.00 in the bank. I found out that there are some truths that you need to know about being the AOR that are not commonly known. Truths which seem to be common sense, such as, if you collect money from Medicare or Medicaid, you can't have an employee on the OIG's LEIE. If this doesn't seem like common sense, it's because it's not. I had never even heard of this list. What about 1 day or 5 day notifications? Where do..