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There are countless number of patients who get transported via ambulance who don't need one. Don't give me that excuse please. These people get told by some family member how much money they could make taking MRS. TINKELBOTTOMS to dialysis so they start their own ambulance company with a bunch of EMTs who play dress up for a while until slowly but surely, the rules start getting bent a little bit to eventual full blown fraud. I'm not discounting companies that do the right thing, but Medlife my friend, was doing some dastardly things and they got shutdown for it. Not everything has a paper trail.
Did they fire everyone or are they still paying salary? If they fired everyone then yes they are likely gone.
They should've logically thought things through instead of buying Rolls Royces and Mercedes and shoving it in their employee's faces by saying they couldn't afford raises or Christmas bonuses. Good riddance to a company run by deplorable human beings.
No one knows why they got shutdown for sure. But I'm sure everyone who worked there could think of many instances. You want an example? Billing BLS tracheostomy patients as being on a ventilator(that the company would bill the insurance as being their own but really, it was owned by the SNF) and requiring CCT RT dialysis transports.
I agree with this but I still think that something irked LA County into denying this company. Something was off.
Only thing is clear if LA County is going to play hardball most company's will shutdown.
You won't be seeing these on the streets anymore
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Yet there are patients who live at home with a trach. Just because a trach is present doesn't mean an RT is needed.We had a separate box for billing for using our ventilators that no right minded EMT checked off unless they wanted to get chewed for. I don't feel what I did as an EMT here counts as fraud. I feel the RT's being there was for the patients safety and benefit. I'm not trained to screw with a trach.
And honestly there are some companies that SHOULD. :censored::censored::censored::censored:, shoreline starts you at 8.00 an hour but they buy NEW rigs!? What the hell is that!
...Plus there is work in Ventura county etc....
I sure hope you dont plan on bringing your company into Ventura. there are only three companies licensed to pick up patients here, two if you count AMR/Goldcoast as one.
http://www.vchca.org/docs/emergency...11-suspension-memo-draft-16aug12.pdf?sfvrsn=0
http://www.vchca.org/ems/jobs
Yet there are patients who live at home with a trach. Just because a trach is present doesn't mean an RT is needed.
I'm sure those new rigs are going to last longer than a lot of the EMTs. Besides, God forbid that companies buy quality products when making capital purchases. I think this is the first time I've seen an EMT complaining that the ambulances at a company was too nice.
lot of 'em are turning into lifers! We need to get these lifers into school...shoot -I- need to get back into school.
And the rigs I'm complaining about are at a different company, actually. Shoreline just bought a few new rigs but pay there employees 8.00 an hour. Then after probation they promise 10.00 an hour but from what I've heard less thant 20% make it past probation :\ That's where I draw the line.
Hahahaha 20 percent? Seriously, where did you pull that number out of? You're talking about Shoreline?!?!?!? Then again, someone coming from Medlife would put a company like Shoreline on a pedestal and make it seem like an unattainable job. The things Dialysis does to poor EMTs, it gets them shellshocked and unsure of themselves.
I mean seriously, Shoreline?
Alright, let me throw in my piece here <3
Something WAS off. What happened was because they closed down Ambumed for having too many patient deaths, they got pissed when the found all the same management was all just being recycled into MedLife. So they got mad and said "Show us the paperwork!" They wanted to see there list of accidents and deaths. I guess they showed them the paperwork and the board wasn't happy with it. Ambumed's past had a lot to do with this.
But alas, life. Not med life, just. Life.