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Ambulance Service of Fulton County shuts down [View all]
GLOVERSVILLE N.Y. (WRGB) - The Ambulance Service of Fulton County shut down on Friday night.
The Ambulance Service of Fulton County is literally boarded up. Its fleet of emergency vehicles idle. Its employees done with what turned out to be their final shift. “The business model is not sustainable,” said Alan Mendelsohn, the service's vice president.
Mendelsohn says the money problem centers on Medicaid calls, which make up a large amount of their work. Mendelshon says the money they get from it just isn’t enough. “We figure it cost us $550 every time one of our ambulances leaves the building. And when you’re only being reimbursed $220 on a large percentage of our calls, and then many other calls we don’t get anything,” he said.
Mendelsohn says the low payout for these calls, coupled with no financial support from towns or the state, just couldn’t be sustained.
...In New York state, police and fire departments are considered essential services, but EMS isn’t.
...The service responded to more than 8,400 hundred calls in 2017.
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/ambulance-service-of-fulton-county-shutting-down
The Ambulance Service of Fulton County is literally boarded up. Its fleet of emergency vehicles idle. Its employees done with what turned out to be their final shift. “The business model is not sustainable,” said Alan Mendelsohn, the service's vice president.
Mendelsohn says the money problem centers on Medicaid calls, which make up a large amount of their work. Mendelshon says the money they get from it just isn’t enough. “We figure it cost us $550 every time one of our ambulances leaves the building. And when you’re only being reimbursed $220 on a large percentage of our calls, and then many other calls we don’t get anything,” he said.
Mendelsohn says the low payout for these calls, coupled with no financial support from towns or the state, just couldn’t be sustained.
...In New York state, police and fire departments are considered essential services, but EMS isn’t.
...The service responded to more than 8,400 hundred calls in 2017.
https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/ambulance-service-of-fulton-county-shutting-down
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