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Unpaid ambulance bills boost Calif. city’s budget deficit

By Ryan Lillis
The Sacramento Bee

Faced with a historic budget deficit, the city of Sacramento is collecting little more than a third of the general fund’s largest non-tax revenue source.

And there’s little the city can do about it.

Over the past four years, the Sacramento Fire Department has collected 36 percent of the more than $127 million in ambulance bills it has sent to the sick and injured, according to department figures.

Full Story: Officials say about $10 million will go unpaid every year