Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes a uniform ambulance assessment fee on the annual revenues of certain ambulance services.

Highlights:

• Establishes a uniform ambulance assessment fee on the annual revenues of certain ambulance services to be expended for increasing medical assistance payment rates for ambulance services (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies that amounts credited to the fund shall be expended solely for  Medicaid payments to ambulance services (Sec. 1). 

• The department of health shall assess the fee described in section three thousand thirty-three of the public health law only upon approval from the Centers for  Medicare and Medicaid Services (Sec. 1).

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