The city's proposed takeover of billing and staffing could yield $5 million per year for nurse triage and other programs
San Diego officials say their plan to take more control over city ambulance service is projected to generate $5 million a year in excess cash they intend to spend on new programs like nurse triage, telemedicine and street-based interventions.
It became significantly more lucrative for cities and counties to take control of their ambulance service in January, when a new state law tripled Medicare and Medi-Cal reimbursement rates for government agencies compared to private providers. “We see nurse navigation as an integral part of our service delivery model,” Stowell said about his long-term plans for city ambulance service.
Instead of the existing model where private ambulance provider Falck USA pays San Diego $9 million a year for the right to charge patients, the city would pay Falck and another provider $65.5 millionDeal reached for San Diego to take over billing, staffing from struggling ambulance provider Falck The Public Safety Committee approved Wednesday a two-year contract for nearly $8 million with Wittman Enterprises, a company that handles billing for 121 government agencies in California, including Oceanside, Carlsbad and Escondido.
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