Posted on 09/04/2016 1:46:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DURHAM, N.C. -- Johnston Ambulance Service, the state's largest private ambulance service is closing at the end of Wednesday, putting around 400 full and part-time employees out of a job.
"We do a lot of transports, across the state and Virginia," said one employee from the Triad who did not want to be identified. "There are many people who don't know what they will do next, some have weddings coming up."
The private ambulance service, based in eastern North Carolina, serves thousands of patients across the state with non-emergency transportation for treatments like dialysis and wound care -- including right here in the Triad....
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How can you have weddings without ambulances?
Reads to me like the owner has his head up his rectum. Why did the paperwork pile up for the past few years? Seems to me he’s trying to blame regulations when he should blame himself for letting the paperwork pile up.
Perhaps they offer limousine service also?
Everything privately owned is being wiped out as it was intended .
Have you ever tried to hire a competent employee off the street? How about one who is familiar with current state and federal regulations? Okay, now change those regulations monthly for a couple of years then switch to changing them weekly and tell me how your employee is doing? The bureaucrats just worked their asses off to put this guy out of business and they finally succeeded.
Aren’t you from the south? I’m surprised you’d ask.
I’m fully aware of the results of the Democrat/Obama disaster known as Obamacare, but that’s not what the owner of the company said in the article. The owner of the ambulance company said it was paperwork piling up for three years.
Hey, I just know what the owner of the company is telling me in the article about his business.
Yes, but if the system is adding hundreds of pages of regulations a week and must be understood before signing off on them, maybe it couldn’t be helped.
Shoot, my daughter had a medical helicopter flyover for her wedding.
“Have you ever tried to hire a competent employee off the street?”
Yes, I have many times over many, many years.
“How about one who is familiar with current state and federal regulations?”
Current state, and federal regulations ultimately were always my responsibility, and I wouldn’t hire someone off the street to handle my responsibility.
Do you get my point? He should have said the onerous federal regulations put him out of business, but he did not. Go back, and read the article if unsure of what I’m telling you.
“How can you have weddings without ambulances? “
lol. I was thinking the same thing: Damned ambulance company! Without ambulances they can’t have weddings!
Why didn’t the owner of the company emphasize in the article the regulations being his problem instead of complaining about the paperwork piling up for three years?
Surely the regulations caused the demise of this company, but the article leaves the impression of somebody not doing the job they should have done to prevent it.
Do you think the Democrat shills that pretend to be reporters are going to record another failure due to Obamacare?
Now that's being prepared!
Reimbursement for ambulance services has been on the decline for the past 22-years. Medicare and Medicaid pay well below actual costs and the private payers follow their lead. All of this is made worse by Obamacare.
The additional paperwork is the result of the OIG’s anti-fraud initiatives directed primarily to non-emergency ambulance providers, and involve a prior approval process that makes revenue recovery very difficult, if not impossible. Medicare and Medicaid routinely deny claims, which put them into the catacombs of the appeals process which can take years to resolve.
There are many ambulance services shuttering their doors for the reasons above, and many more will follow as more onerous hurdles are constructed and bureaucratic meddling intensifies.
Thank you for your excellent response.
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