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Mineral Wells approves $35,000 premium contract with PCG to meet Medicare ambulance data reporting
Summary
Council authorized the city manager to execute the premium package with Public Consulting Group to comply with a CMS ground-ambulance data collection requirement; staff said noncompliance could trigger a 10% Medicare payment reduction and an estimated $53,000 annual loss.
The Mineral Wells City Council authorized the city manager to execute a contract with Public Consulting Group (PCG) for Medicare ground ambulance data collection, approving the premium package the council was presented.
City fire/EMS staff explained the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires ambulance services to report cost, revenue and service data for a multi-year period and that the required data extraction and analytics are…
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