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This bill establishes an ambulance provider assessment program designed to improve funding and reimbursement for ambulance services in Minnesota. The bill creates a new mechanism where ambulance providers (excluding public entities and air ambulance services) will be required to pay a quarterly assessment fee based on their gross revenues. The collected fees will be deposited into a newly created ambulance fee fund, which will then be used to provide supplemental payments to ambulance providers with the goal of increasing medical assistance payments to match average commercial insurance rates. The commissioner of human services will administer the program, calculating the fee rate annually to generate sufficient state funding, and will make quarterly supplemental payments to ambulance providers. The program is contingent on federal approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and if approved, will become effective January 1, 2026. The bill also makes related changes to existing tax statutes, specifically modifying how ambulance services operated by hospitals are taxed and removing an existing exemption for volunteer ambulance services. Annual reporting to legislative committees will be required beginning January 1, 2027, to provide transparency about the program's expenditures.

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https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/bill.php?b=Senate&f=SF3011&ssn=0&y=2025