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Mobile ambulance provider urges action on repeat nonemergency transports
Summary
A local private ambulance operator told the Mobile City Council repeat nonemergency transports are imposing unreimbursed costs in the “millions” and urged the city to seek enforcement tools; city staff outlined education and mental-health response steps and said legislative change may be required for transport rules.
Corey Hughes, owner of Medevac ambulance service in Mobile, told the City Council on March 18 that repeat nonemergency ambulance transports are costing private providers “in the millions” and taking units out of service for prolonged periods.
Hughes said his company routinely responds to the same people multiple times per day and that traditional collection and billing remedies have not solved the problem. “We’ve got multiple patients that essentially use all the ambulances in the city as taxis,” Hughes said. “We’ve got multiple patients that we’ve transported 3 and 400 times this year.”
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