File #: 10-0415    Version:
Type: Agenda Item Status: Approved
File created: 4/19/2010 In control: Board of Supervisors
On agenda: 11/17/2015 Final action: 11/17/2015
Title: HEARING: Health and Human Services, Public Health Division recommending the Board consider the following: 1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 186-2015 revising the ambulance rate schedule for County Services Area No. 3, increasing the ambulance billing fees by 28.11% from $1,114 to $1,427, as well as allowing for annual adjustment of ambulance rates based on an average of the changes in the US Medical Care Services and the San Francisco-Oakland All Items indices of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index; and 2) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 187-2015 revising the ambulance rate schedule for County Services Area No. 7, increasing the ambulance billing fees by 28.11% from $1,114 to $1,427, as well as allowing for annual adjustment of ambulance rates based on an average of the changes in the US Medical Care Services and the San Francisco-Oakland All Items indices of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index. (Est. ...
Attachments: 1. 2A - Approved Contract Routing Sheet 11-17-15, 2. 2B - Resolution for CSA3 Ambulance Rates 11-17-15, 3. 2C - Resolution for CSA7 Ambulance Rates 11-17-15, 4. 2D - Exhibit A 2015 Ambulance Rate Schedule 11-17-15, 5. 2E - Ambulance Rate Report 2015 11-17-15, 6. Executed Resolution 186-2015, 7. Executed Resolution 187-2015, 8. Executed Resolution 061-2010, 9. Executed Resolution 062-2010, 10. C - Exhibit A 2010 Ambulance Rate Schedule, 11. D - Letter to Board 5-24-10, 12. E - Blue Route for CSA 3 & 7 Resolutions
Related files: 07-1196, 08-0801, 22-0380, 21-0789
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HEARING: Health and Human Services, Public Health Division recommending the Board consider the following:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 186-2015 revising the ambulance rate schedule for County Services Area No. 3, increasing the ambulance billing fees by 28.11% from $1,114 to $1,427, as well as allowing for annual adjustment of ambulance rates based on an average of the changes in the US Medical Care Services and the San Francisco-Oakland All Items indices of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index; and
2) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 187-2015 revising the ambulance rate schedule for County Services Area No. 7, increasing the ambulance billing fees by 28.11% from $1,114 to $1,427, as well as allowing for annual adjustment of ambulance rates based on an average of the changes in the US Medical Care Services and the San Francisco-Oakland All Items indices of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index. (Est. Time: 1 Hr.)

FUNDING: Fee for Service.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION:
Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA), Public Health Division recommending the Board adopt two Resolutions revising the ambulance rate schedule for County Service Areas No. 3 and No. 7, increasing ambulance billing fees by 28.11% from $1,114 to $1,427, as well as allowing for an annual adjustment of ambulance rates based on an average of the changes in the US Medical Care Services and the San Francisco-Oakland All Items indices of the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index.


DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND:
As the provider of ambulance services, El Dorado County operates under the Public Utility Model, through which the County provides exclusive and non-exclusive prehospital Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulance services. The provision of ambulance services for El Dorado County Service Area (CSA) 3 and 7 is vested with the County through its Local Emergency Medical Services Agency estab...

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