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Critical-access hospitals seek exemption from ambulance-district mandate
Summary
Representative Gretchen Dobrevich and several rural hospital leaders told the committee that hospitals that operate ambulance services should be exempt from a new mandatory ambulance-district requirement, citing administrative duplication and potential funding impacts.
House Bill 1339 would exempt critical-access hospitals that own and operate ambulance services from a statutory requirement to form rural ambulance service districts. Representative Gretchen Dobrevich (District 11) introduced the bill at a House Human Services Committee hearing, saying the exemption would avoid duplicative oversight and possible loss of funding for small hospital-run services.
"This area of code currently exempts ambulance services owned by a county, a city, under joint ownership, a tribal nation, the federal government, and cities with population of 6,500 or more," Dobrevich said. She told members that nine of North Dakota's…
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