Corruption in EMS

[RockDoc]

Well said CrapMagnet. There are some private companies that provide excellent EMERGENCY and non_Emergency. However, I do believe that all privates receive subsidies from the cities,counties, municipalities that they serve. I do not know of any privates that can exist strictly on the collections that the get from calls, cashor insurance. Remember, the original subject of this thread concerned the defraudment of Medi-Care by companies, private or public.

Do not tar all providers with the same brush.

[HERBIE1]

Like I said in an earlier post, 3rd service works great for some areas as a 911 provider, and there are some great privates as well. When I started as an EMT, the private I worked for was top notch, but small. We did the IFT's and some emergency response with people who did not want to go to the closest ER with fire. There were other companies who were incredibly crappy and I would never work for them.

I was just relating the experience I had here with AMR trying to take over. It was all about the money with them, and they had no idea how poor reimbursement was, and what a large percentage of our calls were self pay or Public Aid, which only pays pennies on the dollar.

Not disparaging any segment of the industry per se, just giving a personal account.

[Asysin2leads]

This guy doesn't seem to happy with Rural Metro's services in Arizona:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/inspections-hazards/rural-metro/rural-metro-southwest-ambulanc-58fba.htm

Wow, 2500 smackers for driving by some steam? That's a lot.

Then there's this little criticism of their financial practices:

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/may/04/radar-rural-metro-million-secret/

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