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Bonner County EMS pushes for stakeholder talks after repeated disputes over hospital-to‑nursing‑home transports
Summary
Board members described frequent, unpaid transports from hospitals back to nursing homes for patients who fall outside medical‑necessity criteria and proposed convening hospital, nursing‑home and county representatives to reach a plan; the board declined to provide 'free rides.'
Bonner County Ambulance District leaders said they will seek a joint meeting with hospital and nursing‑home representatives after repeatedly being asked to transport patients back to facilities after emergency‑department care when transports fall outside Medicare/insurance medical‑necessity rules.
The Chair (S2) described a pattern in which patients are brought to the hospital, treated and then face difficulty returning to their nursing‑home facilities because the homes lack drivers or decline to accept responsibility. "We're certainly not going to give free rides to people from the hospital back to a nursing home…
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