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Kalispell council backs exploring third‑party ambulance billing to boost collections and reduce staff risk
Summary
Councilors gave staff consensus to pursue third‑party EMS billing proposals after staff said outside vendors could raise collection rates from about 40% to over 50%, likely paying for themselves at 5–10% fees.
City staff briefed the Kalispell City Council on a proposal to move ambulance billing to a third‑party vendor to increase revenue collections and reduce dependence on a single administrative staff member in the fire department.
City staff said Kalispell’s ambulance system generates roughly $1.3 million in overall budgeted costs and that current in-house billing collects about $470,000 annually—approximately 40% of billed charges. “Looking at currently, we get about 40% of the billing. This would likely increase us to up over 50%,” City staff member Nygren…
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