Non-Emergency Stretcher Transportation (Costs)

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Watch the full video at http://wellness09.CTAA.org/presentations/4pm_panel.html, along with slideshows, captions, search and comment tools. Visit http://wellness09.CTAA.org/ to watch all the videos from the Partnerships for Wellness 2009 Conference.

This panel discusses why non-emergency stretcher transportation should be a part of the family of transit services. MRSA is also discussed because of the prevalence of this bacterium in medical facilities, including ambulances.

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  • If the reimbursement rate for Medicaid means that having two people carrying a stretcher is untenable in some circumstances, it seems like there are two things that can happen: either the reimbursement rate goes up or you have stretchers operated by one person. What can transportation providers do? It seems like this is a place for technical innovations, since they can't control the reimbursement rate. Are there types of stretchers that can be safely operated by one person?

  • I didn't know that an agency would knowingly send out one operator to do a stretcher transport. This seems amazingly dangerous for both the patient and the operator.

  • I did not know that a program would knowingly send out one person to transport a stretcher. There are an amazing number of ways this could go wrong.

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