Guest guest Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 Hello, My county auditor and I are interested in seeing how many county EMS services apply their uninsured county resident's EMS bills towards their indigent program's 8% match. If there are other EMS / Ambulance companies out there that do this, please contact me. You may contact me off the list. Thank you in advance. Peggy Fonseca, EMT-P, CCEMT-P, FP-C Goliad County EMS Administrator P.O. Box 938 Goliad, Tx 77963 (fax) CONFIDENTIAL & PRIVILEGED Unless otherwise indicated or obvious from the nature of the following communication, the information contained herein is privileged and confidential information/work product. The communication is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error or are not sure whether it is privileged, please immediately notify us by return e-mail and destroy any copies, electronic, paper or otherwise, which you may have of this communication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 EMS is an optional service under Chapter 61 of the Health and Safety Code. Assuming the County accepted EMS as an optional service and paid at the deplorably low Medicaid rates, it could be covered under the 8% mandate. I would be concerned about doing that unless the uninsured person was a covered life in your indigent program. I don't believe that you could cover non-member unpaid bills in the 8%. That being said, I would make every effort to bring this person onto the program so that I could include the expense in the 8% mandate. The complication to this would be that the County Indigent program would then have to pick up the cost for the mandated and optional services. The county should explore including the un-reimbursed costs in the county's submission for the Texas Tobacco Settlement (Hospital District and County Indigent funding - unrelated to EMS tobacco money through the RAC's). Feel free to call me () or Curry () for more County Indigent questions. ******************************************* , MPA, LP Interim Chief Administrative Officer EMS Director Montgomery County Hospital District ________________________________ From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of PFONS10503@... Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:24 AM To: Subject: County Services Hello, My county auditor and I are interested in seeing how many county EMS services apply their uninsured county resident's EMS bills towards their indigent program's 8% match. If there are other EMS / Ambulance companies out there that do this, please contact me. You may contact me off the list. Thank you in advance. Peggy Fonseca, EMT-P, CCEMT-P, FP-C Goliad County EMS Administrator P.O. Box 938 Goliad, Tx 77963 (fax) CONFIDENTIAL & PRIVILEGED Unless otherwise indicated or obvious from the nature of the following communication, the information contained herein is privileged and confidential information/work product. The communication is intended for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error or are not sure whether it is privileged, please immediately notify us by return e-mail and destroy any copies, electronic, paper or otherwise, which you may have of this communication. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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