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Witnesses urge KDHE to fund statewide emergency coordination and community paramedicine infrastructure to lower long‑term Medicaid costs
Summary
Vendors and operators told the committee that a HIPAA‑compliant coordination platform and a statewide community‑paramedicine backbone can reduce time to treatment for emergencies, improve transfers and save Medicaid dollars; ask included multi‑year infrastructure funding.
Two witnesses described complementary investments to improve emergency coordination and community paramedicine statewide and tied those investments to potential Medicaid cost avoidance.
Ashley Voss (Polsera/Pulsara) recommended a secure, HIPAA‑compliant platform that links EMS, hospitals and public safety to shorten time to treatment for strokes, heart attacks and trauma and to streamline transfers. Voss said conservative modeling suggests a mature statewide system could produce approximately $23,000,000 in annual net savings through reduced long‑term care needs and fewer disability‑related Medicaid expenditures. In a question from the committee, she identified a requested annual budget figure of about $2,626,900.
Daniel Hayes (HealthCall) described a related request for a statewide infrastructure to scale community paramedicine and mobile integrated health: a five‑year ask of $1.2 million in year one and $800,000 annually in years two through five (total $4.4 million). Hayes said standardized documentation, workflows and data infrastructure are prerequisites for verifiable outcomes and for enabling value‑based reimbursement as programs scale.
Committee members asked about integration with existing 800 MHz radio systems, HIPAA compliance, and a demonstration of fiscal savings. Witnesses said the platforms use cellular and web technologies and are HIPAA‑compliant, and they offered peer‑reviewed citations and examples from other states to support their savings estimates. No committee vote occurred; staff asked for written fiscal models and deployment plans.
