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Council extends the AMR ambulance permit two years and approves a transport-rate increase
On the January 31, 2017 consent agenda the council approved, 5:0, a two-year extension of the ambulance permit beginning January 1, 2018 (item 10C) and an "extraordinary" increase in AMR's transport rates, listed on the agenda as 2.935%, to cover AMR's portion of increased operating costs at the Amarillo Emergency Communications Center (item 10D). Other rates were to rise with the consumer price index as provided in the permit.[1][2]
American Medical Response, Inc. (dba Amarillo Medical Services)
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The council approved consent items 10B, 10C and 10D 5:0 on January 31, 2017; item 10C extended the ambulance permit for two years beginning January 1, 2018. [1]
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Item 10D approved a new rate schedule for the ambulance permit; the extraordinary increase applied only to transport rates and was "intended to cover AMR's portion of increased operating costs at the Amarillo Emergency Communications Center." The agenda listed the increase as 2.935%. [2][1]
- Rate increase
- 2.935%
