OIG advisory opinion on contracts for emergency ambulance services
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, October 30, 2007
The OIG released an advisory opinion in regard to how three private ambulance companies should absorb the costs of providing administrative services and emergency dispatch services.
According to the OIG, the undisclosed county continually contracted with the same three ambulance companies to serve the EMS system. Each ambulance service covers one of the county's three regions, and they recently entered into new contracts. Their new contracts contain these changes:
- The Ambulance Services would take care of the cost of transporting uninsured arrestees
- The Ambulance Services would have to reimburse the county for costs in giving quality assurance oversight, medical oversight, and contract administrative services
- The Ambulance Services would have to pay the County Fire Protection District (FDP) a share of the total costs of providing EMS dispatch services
The OIG found that the proposed arrangement would cause minimal risk of Federal health care program fraud and abuse, and the OIG would not impose administrative sanctions.
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