Lower fees effective April 1, 2017

Ambulance fees are going down April 1st says Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Kelvin Goertzen.

“Our mandate was to make sure ambulance fees were affordable for Manitobans living right across the province,” said Goertzen.  “Working with the regional health authorities and other ambulance providers, we are now able to further reduce fees.”

According to Goertzen fees will drop to $425 or lower if the service provider has a pre-existing fee structure that is lower.

Fees were reduced January 1, 2017 as well.

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In Manitoba a number of agencies provide ambulance services including regional health authorities, First Nation communities and municipalities like Winnipeg and Brandon

The province already provides coverage for certain ambulance services including:

• inter-facility transfers between health-care facilities;

• the Northern Patient Transportation Program, which subsidizes medically necessary transportation for residents in the north;

• helicopter transportation to patients requiring critical and emergent care within a 250-kilometre radius of Winnipeg; and

• the Lifeflight Air Ambulance program, which provides specialized inter-facility transport for critically ill or injured Manitoba residents who live further than 200 km from Winnipeg.

The province says that over the next three years they will continue to reduce fees paid by ambulance users.

-News4 Staff-

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