CONCERNING AN AMBULANCE TRANSPORT QUALITY ASSURANCE FEE. The legislature finds that the rate to provide ambulance transports for medicaid recipients has not been increased since 2004, resulting in a loss for carriers who provide this service. This has resulted in the shifting of cost of medicaid transports to other payers. The purpose of this chapter is to provide for a safety net fee for certain ambulance transports, which will be used to augment funding from all other sources, thereby supporting additional payments to ambulance transport providers for medicaid services as
specified in this chapter.