Aloha Hawaii Nemt Providers,
There will be a meeting this sunday. Lets get organized and start a new association!!
Please email me for details, when and where and time.
nemtproviders@gmail.com
Friday, July 2, 2010
Friday, June 18, 2010
NEMT HAWAII PROVIDERS
Aloha everyone, I just wanted to start this blog to reach out to all the NEMT Hawaii providers that are contracted with Logisticare and TMS.
This blog is an open invitation to all NEMT Hawaii provider to come together and share what experiences they have had with Logisticare and TMS.
Prior to Logisticare and TMS (EVERCARE & OHANA), Like many of you I was a Medicaid provider. Since the roll out of Logisticare and Tms, there have been many changes. As of late, many of you know that we have been offered to voluntarily drop our service rates. As all of you know our rates have been set by the state. When was the last time our rates were increased? As far as I know its been more than 5 years. Cost of living alone in the past 5 years have increased tremendously here in Hawaii. Gas alone is a killer for our business.
I've spoken to a few other NEMT providers on Maui, Big Island, and Oahu. How many of you have been told.... " the company that has the most cost effective price will be given priority over those who have not voluntarily dropped there rates". One of the providers that I spoke to said
"if he doesn't drop his rates he will not be given any work". This is illegal for them to say this.
Now, I've been told that many of the Logisticare providers have dropped there rates while few have not.Not sure if this is Logisticares way of pushing us into dropping our rates...fear that the other company will get more work. I don't know too much about the TMS providers. I myself have chose not to drop my rates for Logisticare or TMS. How can we live off of the proposed rates that they would like us to be paid? Not to mention having to increase our insurance just to maintain our contract. Many providers have had to close there businesses.
I decided to do some research on my own. I spoke to the Department of Human Services and found out that TMS and Logisticare is being paid the "full amount". Why then is this not being passed along to the providers? For those of you who have decided to drop your rates, who do you think pockets the rest of the money?? I know that its not being passed on to Medicaid. So, money that should belong to you for your hard work is being kept by Logisticare and TMS.
What bothers me, is that they are getting us to compete with each other. We should be doing the opposite. There is enough work for everyone. We need to ban together and stop them from taking advantage of our businesses that we worked so hard for.
Please pass along this blog to any Hawaii provider that you may know, and feel free to post your comments.
This blog is an open invitation to all NEMT Hawaii provider to come together and share what experiences they have had with Logisticare and TMS.
Prior to Logisticare and TMS (EVERCARE & OHANA), Like many of you I was a Medicaid provider. Since the roll out of Logisticare and Tms, there have been many changes. As of late, many of you know that we have been offered to voluntarily drop our service rates. As all of you know our rates have been set by the state. When was the last time our rates were increased? As far as I know its been more than 5 years. Cost of living alone in the past 5 years have increased tremendously here in Hawaii. Gas alone is a killer for our business.
I've spoken to a few other NEMT providers on Maui, Big Island, and Oahu. How many of you have been told.... " the company that has the most cost effective price will be given priority over those who have not voluntarily dropped there rates". One of the providers that I spoke to said
"if he doesn't drop his rates he will not be given any work". This is illegal for them to say this.
Now, I've been told that many of the Logisticare providers have dropped there rates while few have not.Not sure if this is Logisticares way of pushing us into dropping our rates...fear that the other company will get more work. I don't know too much about the TMS providers. I myself have chose not to drop my rates for Logisticare or TMS. How can we live off of the proposed rates that they would like us to be paid? Not to mention having to increase our insurance just to maintain our contract. Many providers have had to close there businesses.
I decided to do some research on my own. I spoke to the Department of Human Services and found out that TMS and Logisticare is being paid the "full amount". Why then is this not being passed along to the providers? For those of you who have decided to drop your rates, who do you think pockets the rest of the money?? I know that its not being passed on to Medicaid. So, money that should belong to you for your hard work is being kept by Logisticare and TMS.
What bothers me, is that they are getting us to compete with each other. We should be doing the opposite. There is enough work for everyone. We need to ban together and stop them from taking advantage of our businesses that we worked so hard for.
Please pass along this blog to any Hawaii provider that you may know, and feel free to post your comments.
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