Ambulance

A former nursing home administrator was found guilty of receiving illegal payments for referring residents for fraudulent ambulance transport services.

The Obama administration has determined that we will be able to supply healthcare to several million additional people without increasing the cost of doing so, and with no plan in place to increase the supply side of the equation: the healthcare providers. In fact, the administration would have us believe that we can increase the supply of the product with the same resources currently in play and save money at the same time.

One ambulance supplier's proposal to receive payments from skilled nursing facilities that use Medicaid transport services could overstep the bounds of an anti-kickback statute, according to an advisory opinion from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General.

Medicaid payment bundling is emerging as a key topic in national healthcare reform. As part of their research on bundling, federal lawmakers should pay attention to what is happening in Ohio.