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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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