We do both a subscription campaign and a donation campaign that helps supplement that,” he said. “We continue to look for additional revenue sources. The authority's fiscal 2014 operating budget was $2.4 million, but its revenue was $2.3 million, he said. About half of patients are on Medicare, he said.Ībout 30 percent of the people the service transported last year were uninsured and did not pay, McKinniss said. It charges $785 for advance life support service and transport to a hospital, but Medicare reimburses only $400 for that, Butler said. The cost is $531 “to put an ambulance out the door,” said Steve McKinniss, administrator for the service. It is funded by private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid and patients' out-of-pocket payments. The collection rates are very poor,” said Dean Bollendorf, president of the Ambulance Association of Pennsylvania.įounded in 1977 as a nonprofit, the McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority employs 38 people and serves residents in McCandless, Franklin Park, Bradford Woods, Marshall and Pine. So then the ambulance service has to go bill the patient individually. “Now, the co-payments are often 50 to 70 percent of the total service fee. Meanwhile, private insurance companies are shifting more of the costs for transport to patients. The McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority has started sending letters to people who haven't paid for its services, in addition to taking unpaid cases to the magistrate, but it is finding that others still are having to pick up the slack for non-payers.Īmbulance services are struggling with insufficient Medicare reimbursements, industry leaders said. “A large part of that has to do with funding,” he said. Today, there are 45, said Tim Butler, deputy administrator for the McCandless-Franklin Park Ambulance Authority.

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