Calculation of Uniform Assessment per Ground Transport — Quarterly Transport Data
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The bureau shall calculate a uniform assessment per ground transport for each ambulance provider pursuant to subsection (b).
Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c), each quarter of the state fiscal year, the assessment due from each ambulance provider will equal the rate set in subsection (e) multiplied by each provider's total transports reported from the most recent available completed quarter of transport data recorded by the office of emergency medical services. Ambulance providers will be required to submit a quarterly reporting of all transports to the office of emergency medical services in a manner determined by the office of emergency medical services and the bureau.
If the quarterly transport data is not adequate or available for the calculation of assessments, then the bureau shall use total transports submitted to the office of emergency medical services for calendar year 2019. If neither the quarterly transport data nor total transports submitted to the office of emergency medical services are adequate or available, then the bureau shall use the annual cost and utilization report submitted pursuant to § 71-5-1507. The adequacy and availability of the data must be determined solely by the bureau.
The bureau shall apply any annual changes to the assessment rate, calculated as described in subsection (b), uniformly to all assessed ambulance providers.
The assessment shall generate the lesser of:
Nine dollars and nine cents ($9.09) per transport that is part of a provider's total transports as that term is defined in § 71-5-1502; or
In the event that nine dollars and nine cents ($9.09) per transport causes the statewide assessment to exceed six percent (6%) of statewide net operating revenues, the per transport assessment will equal an amount that shall generate six percent (6%) of statewide net operating revenues.