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New York City: Wallet biopsies proven

The data is in. There is finally more than gut-level evidence. The New York comptroller's office analyzed strictly guarded Fire Department data from more than 300,000 transports made in five months of 1999. They found that private hospital ambulance crews in New York City are 10 to 25 times more likely to steer patients back to the hospitals that pay them than are city ambulances in the same zip code, according to a lengthy investigative report in the Village Voice. The study also found that private ambulances steered insured patients to their home bases twice as often as uninsured people. The effects of this illegal practice on New York's public hospital system are financially devastating. Caught in the middle, prehospital personnel report that they find themselves under considerable pressure to make trips to home base and deliver paying patients to their employers.

from: http://www.merginet.com/index-news.htm   July 2001