American Medical Response, the ambulance company that has been operating in San Bernardino county since the 1970s, expressed disappointment with the decision Wednesday afternoon. Beginning Thursday morning, AMR’s ambulance service was replaced by CONFIRE ambulance service. “This contract award was driven not by service quality, patient outcomes, or the results of the county’s own competitive process — which AMR won — but by manipulating the award to increase county revenue and to exploit a controversial Medicaid loophole that federal regulators are actively investigating for fraud, waste, and abuse,” the company said in a statement released after the ruling was published. “The county passed over the highest-scoring bidder who proposed 30 more ambulances per day and lower patient charges, instead choosing to substantially raise rates to chase a taxpayer-funded windfall,” the statement continues. “We continue to believe that emergency medical services contracts should be awarded ba...
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