Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Copyright 2007 Denver Publishing Company
Emergency Medical Services Corp., a Greenwood Village- based ambulance operator and medical staffing contractor, received a subpoena from the Justice Department in December asking for documents dating to January 2000.
The company said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the subpoena is related to some of its American Medical Response Inc. affiliates in New York. The company said it is producing the documents.
“We have received several of these subpoenas from the government over the last five years, which is not uncommon in this industry,” said Jeff Elliott at Halliburton Investor Relations, EMS’ outside investor relations firm. “Our practice is to cooperate with the government, and in the past, we have been successful in reaching resolutions for these inquiries.”
The subpoena is unrelated to previous Justice Department claims the company settled last year, said Deborah Hileman, EMS vice president of corporate communications and investor relations.
In October, the company agreed to pay $9 million to settle a Justice Department claim alleging that AMR gave discounts to Texas medical facilities in return for referrals from 1994 through 2001. During that time, AMR was under different ownership.
Shares of EMS fell $1.12, or 4.4 percent, to $24.48 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.