MedicPrincess
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I am tireing quickly of our usual rounds. I know many places have voucher programs in place, where if a patient does not need ambulance transport the EMS crew responding can provide a taxi voucher instead.
Do any of your services do this? How does it work? Are you required to clear it through Med Control before refusing to transport? Or is it the Paramedics discression?
There has been some talk of thinking about doing something like that here. I want to put something together to show them where we would save money, improve response times (if were not transporting so much crap we are available for calls in our district), increase employee moral, ect.
Since I work for a county government, the best way is to prove to them it would be economically benificial to them in some way. Anybody have this type of option for your nonemergeny patients.
Do any of your services do this? How does it work? Are you required to clear it through Med Control before refusing to transport? Or is it the Paramedics discression?
There has been some talk of thinking about doing something like that here. I want to put something together to show them where we would save money, improve response times (if were not transporting so much crap we are available for calls in our district), increase employee moral, ect.
Since I work for a county government, the best way is to prove to them it would be economically benificial to them in some way. Anybody have this type of option for your nonemergeny patients.
