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Re: Fishing at Surfside post# 4924

Wednesday, 04/03/2019 2:40:46 PM

Wednesday, April 03, 2019 2:40:46 PM

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Transportation costs:

My day job is an NEMT driver. That is non-emergency medical transport. It's mainly Medicaid with a small portion of private insurance that provides transportation to and from appointments for low-income and elderly.

I have clients that get rides of over 50 to 60 miles each way just to see a counselor because they like that counselor.

A trip like that costs taxpayers about $130, and if it's a wheelchair van it's more than $350. Many of these appointments are only 15 minutes long just to do a medication check to see how they're doing.

Currently, the state of Wisconsin contract just for Medicaid transport is over $65 million dollars per year.

Based on my personal experience I would say that 40% of that could be cut in an instant if they went to telemedicine.

That's just one small state.

"the federal government spends $2.7 billion annually on NEMT, according to a JAMA study, or as much as $3 billion annually, according to the Transit Cooperative Research Program, a federally-funded research entity.
With roughly 103 million NEMT trips taken annually, the average trip costs somewhere between $26 and $29.

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/medicaid-waivers-put-transport-benefits-on-chopping-block/531427/


The entire country complains about our federal budget and the Obama Administration actually increase the numbers into the multi billions per year just for transportation.


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