Hospitals request work group, transparency on proposed EMS designation fee increases

May 13, 2025

Hospital systems including Kaiser, Stanford and El Camino asked the board to release the EMS fee study and form a work group to review a proposed jump in hospital EMS designation fees; county staff said the fee itself still requires a separate board hearing and study.

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Several hospital systems and health-care associations asked supervisors Monday for a collaborative review of a proposed increase in emergency-medical-services (EMS) hospital-designation fees.

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