Massachusetts Ambulance Company Pays Penalty for Falsifying Training Qualifications

[News]

Trinity EMS, Inc. agrees to pay $350,000 for not properly certifying EMTs.

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[Just Plain Ruff]

Look for further penalties for services who's emt's involved in the scandal in the article to be looked at closely as well. The falsifying of emt re-certification scandal is going to cost some other services some big bucks as well.

[island emt]

Especially after the auditor general starts collecting for all the medicare billings done for runs by all the illegally

licensed EMT's & medics. That will bring the BIG fines.

[Just Plain Ruff]

And they thought they were getting off easy for just losing their licenses and what nots. This will have far reaching ramifications all for a bunch of idiots taking the easy way out.

But there has to be a bunch of ambulance services trying to figure out how much money they are goign to have to pay back to medicare, private insurance and medicaid and then trying to figure out how much in penalties and interest and all that they will have to pay.

I'll bet that some of the services have already contacted the above mentioned entities to mitigate the amount they will have to pay due to the unlicensed providers.

I think that if they come forward on their own the hammer won't be so hard to fall. but if the don't, then it won't just be a hammer, it will be a sledgehammer on a 10 penny nail.

And the provider who thought that their job was safe, will no longer be working there because of the money that they caused the service to pay out.

Edited September 18, 2012 by Captain ToHellWithItAll