Automated workflow in emergency medical services billing

A system for automatically processing a medical claim, the system comprising:

• one or more servers configured to implement a billing automation platform;
• a navigation device associated with a patient transport vehicle and comprising a global positioning system (GPS), the navigation device configured to collect patient transport information comprising a location of a medical encounter;
• and
• a computing device communicably coupled to the navigation device and to the one or more servers, the computing device configured to
• receive the patient transport information from the navigation device,
• receive patient charting information for the medical encounter, and
• transmit the patient transport information with the patient charting information to the one or more servers,
• wherein the billing automation platform is configured to
• receive the patient transport information with the patient charting information,
• access at least one fee schedule based on the location of the medical encounter,
• automatically populate the medical claim for the medical encounter based on the patient charting information, the patient transport information, and the at least one fee schedule, and
• automatically route the medical claim through a plurality of workflow paths of an automated claim processing workflow, wherein routing the medical claim comprises
• (a) associating the medical claim with first routing information comprising a first status code and a first reason code of a plurality of status codes and a plurality of reason codes based at least in part on the medical claim,
• (b) directing the medical claim through a first workflow path of the plurality of workflow paths based on the first routing information, wherein the directing results in the first routing information being updated to a next routing information comprising a next status code and a next reason code of the plurality of status codes and reason codes,
• (c) directing the medical claim through a next workflow path of the plurality of workflow paths based on the next routing information, and
• (d) repeating step (c) for the plurality of workflow paths.