Insurance Journal
The Spokane, Wash., City Council will decide whether to terminate a contract with a private ambulance company that overbilled hundreds of patients and insurance companies more than $320,000 in the past three years.
The overbilling has soured relations between the council and Fire Chief Bobby Williams, whose department was supposed to oversee the ambulance contract. Williams already was in trouble for a firehouse sex scandal involving one of his firefighters and a 16-year-old girl.
An audit made public showed American Medical Response, the private ambulance company serving Spokane residents, overbilled hundreds of patients and insurance companies a total of $320,689 since January 2003.
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