Establishes a grant program for emergency medical transport providers in rural areas in Washington.
The bill establishes a grant program to provide supplemental payments to public and private ground emergency medical transport providers in rural areas. The payments are for services provided to persons enrolled in medical assistance programs and living in frontier counties. The payments are calculated as the difference between the rate received from medical assistance programs and the Medicare rate for the same service. The program prioritizes funding based on the order of submission to the authority.
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