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Read. Follow. Verify.Minnesota establishes rural ambulance uncompensated care payment program with $3 million appropriation
Last action · February 13, 2025: Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and PolicySponsor: Jeff Backer
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What This Bill Proposed
Minnesota House File 696 establishes a rural emergency medical services uncompensated care pool payment program and appropriates $3 million from the general fund for 2026. The program makes payments to eligible ambulance licensees that primarily operate outside designated metropolitan counties for qualifying unpaid emergency responses occurring in 2025.
Rural ambulance providers that respond to emergency calls but receive no payment and do not transport patients to a hospital can apply for state financial reimbursement by March 31, 2026, with payments distributed by May 30, 2026.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Rural ambulance licensees
Eligible ambulance services operating outside metropolitan counties can apply for and receive state financial payments for qualifying uncompensated emergency responses.
Office of Emergency Medical Services
The office is tasked with establishing, administering, calculating, and distributing payments under the new program using the appropriated funds.
Key Facts
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is eligible to receive payments from the rural EMS uncompensated care pool?
What are the criteria for an emergency medical response to qualify?
When is the deadline to apply for the payment program?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · introduced in the House.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 13, 2025HouseIntroducedIntroduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz30Current news / social attention level
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