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Tamarac staff recommend continued contract with Digitech for EMS billing; city also reviewing outstanding transport debt
Summary
Deputy Fire Chief Jonathan Fraser told Tamarac commissioners Monday the city plans to seek approval of a multi-year billing contract with Digitech and outlined more than a decade of unpaid ambulance-transport charges on the city's books.
TAMARAC, Fla. — Fire department leaders briefed the commission on a proposed contract with Digitech to continue ambulance billing and related services, and on the city’s stock of unpaid patient-transport charges.
Deputy Fire Chief Jonathan Fraser told commissioners the proposed engagement would be a three-year contract with two one-year renewal options (a potential total of five years) for ambulance billing services. Fraser said Digitech has worked with the city for about 20 years and that the vendor’s fee structure in the presentation was a 4% billing fee plus a separate $1,000 monthly processing fee. He said Digitech may not charge the 4% fee on Medicaid claims and that the $1,000 monthly charge functions as a processing fee for those claims.
Fraser showed historical revenue figures: collections reported…
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