In the 1920s Yenta was first popularized by the humorist Jacob Adler (not the actor Jacob P. Adler) writing under his pen name B. Kovner, in which he created the character Yenta, and featured Yenta in a Broadway play entitled Yenta Telebenta.
Covered entities include: health care clearing houses; health plans; and health care providers who transmit any health information electronically in connection with certain transactions. Although this definition can be somewhat difficult to apply, generally speaking, ambulance services are covered entities. However, most dispatchers, such as 911 dispatchers, are not because they do not engage in covered electronic transactions, such as directly billing insurers for services or transmitting healthcare enrollment information.
Ambulance services are separately reimbursable only under Part B Medicare does not cover all health care services. Health care services not covered by Medicare include, but are not limited to: alternative medicine most care received outside of the United States cosmetic surgery most dental care hearing aids personal care or custodial care