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This bill amends the Transportation Benefit Manager Act to modify regulations around ambulance service claims and reimbursement. Specifically, the bill removes previous language that mandated healthcare insurers or transportation benefit managers pay 250% of the Medicare Ambulance Fee Schedule Rural Rate, effectively eliminating the fixed reimbursement rate. The bill requires ambulance providers to submit claims with information specified by the Insurance Commissioner and adds a new provision that starting July 1, 2025, the Arkansas Ambulance Association must collect and annually submit to the commissioner the rates approved or contracted between ambulance providers and local government entities. The bill includes an emergency clause, indicating an urgent need to resolve conflicts and confusion surrounding in-network and out-of-network reimbursement rates for ambulance services. The emergency provision allows the bill to become effective immediately upon approval by the Governor, expiration of the Governor's review period, or override of a potential veto, with the goal of alleviating uncertainty in the ambulance service reimbursement process and promoting clarity for providers, insurers, and the State Insurance Department.

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