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jwirr

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10. Actually I suspect that our bus service and your ParaTransport

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 29, 2015, 07:13 PM

Sep 2015

Service are very much alike. Our service started out in the 60s as a CAP service for the elderly and disabled and we turned it into an everyone can ride bus service.

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AP: Medicare�s $30 million ambulance-ride mystery [View all] Omaha Steve Sep 2015 OP

aparently, there is a ambulance scandal near me, but the problem is hollysmom Sep 2015 #1

My daughter is extremely disabled and in a wheel chair. When jwirr Sep 2015 #4

Here you would call the Paratransport Service Downwinder Sep 2015 #5

Actually I suspect that our bus service and your ParaTransport jwirr Sep 2015 #10

We are getting there. Downwinder Sep 2015 #11

Good. This is one service that is extremely important to jwirr Sep 2015 #12

I'm on Medicare, and my ambulance ride costs ME $250 99th_Monkey Sep 2015 #2

I'm aware of mentally ill MediCare/Medicaid patients using ambulances to refill prescriptions REP Sep 2015 #6

Well, if it really is the "only way" I would agree. 99th_Monkey Sep 2015 #8

There should be another option REP Sep 2015 #9

No Mystery, someone is committing fraud. UCmeNdc Sep 2015 #3

Amen to that, onethatcares Sep 2015 #7