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Committee cuts non‑emergency medical transportation mileage rate, aligns wheelchair van payments
Summary
The Joint Budget Committee approved lowering the per‑mile rate for non‑ambulance non‑emergency medical transportation from about $6.10 to $3.00 and increasing wheelchair‑van per‑mile rates to align payments; staff projected a net general‑fund savings of about $14.9 million.
Joe Kurtz, Health Care Policy & Financing staff, recommended rate adjustments to non‑emergency medical transportation (NEMT). Kurtz said the department’s current NEMT reimbursement is much higher than comparable private sector taxi rates and that the program has experienced fraud, administrative difficulty, and uneven service quality after prior large rate increases.
Kurtz…
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