York City EMS service rates double under new contract
The five-year contract between the city and White Rose Ambulance will provide services retroactive to
The current three-person council voted unanimously to approve the agreement.
The contract includes an escalated compensation structure to White Rose Ambulance. Payments will rise from
A little over
"It's tough," he said, "but they did work with us."
Doweary noted that while the yearly average is double the
White Rose CEO
"A lot of people ask me, 'Then why do you do it?,'" he said.
"It helps attract employees," he replied.
Emergency services is only part of the company's business, Alvin added.
The more profitable services White Rose provides comes from nonemergency work, such as facility patient transfers from nursing homes to hospitals and vice-versa.
Emergency work is appealing to many applicants, Alvin said, which motivates the company's work with the city.
Alvin said the main reason for the increase in emergency service cost comes from low reimbursement rates codified into law by the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
Reimbursement rates under the health care exchanges are below cost, Alvin said, offering lower rates for individuals but a lousy deal for EMS companies such as White Rose, which has seen emergency call volume double since the 1990s.
"It's something we don't like to do," Alvin said regarding the rate hike. "But for us to provide the level of service that's required in the city, we had to raise the rates."
Council vacancies: At the Tuesday meeting,
He announced 29 individuals applied to fill two open seats left by
Nixon, Ritter-Dickson and council member
A special session will convene in the middle of the the council's committee meeting to appoint two new members to the
All deliberations on council vacancies, as well as other city matters, will occur starting at
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