. . . and increasing ambulance use: “People call ambulances and come to the ED for innocuous complaints because “¦ they don’t have gas money.”
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Not a new excuse at all. People were using that one back when I started in EMS, in the good old days when gas was $1.65 a gallon.
People think that primary care is failing due to declining reimbursement…ambulance reimbursement from CMS for the typical transport runs about 60-70% of the actual cost of doing that transport.
And those figures were before $4/gallon diesel prices.
Hey, thanks to unfounded federal mandate EMTALA its all “free,” if you have no intention of paying.
Amazing. Yet another way to abuse our health care system. What nerve.
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