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.
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.
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.
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.