Amends TCA Title 71.

Present law requires an ambulance provider to pay a quarterly medicaid ambulance provider assessment to the bureau of TennCare. With exceptions, the rate of the assessment is set by multiplying each provider's transport totals reported from the most recent available completed quarter of transport data to the office of emergency medical services by the lessor of:<br /> <br /> (1) $9.09 per each medicaid transport; or<br /> (2) In the event that $9.09 per transport causes the statewide assessment to exceed 6 percent of statewide net operating revenues, the per transport assessment will equal an amount that generates 6 percent of statewide net operating revenues. <br /> <br /> This bill revises the multiplier described (1) above to be $9.09 per transport that is part of a provider's total transports. "Total transports" are all transports reported during the base period by a provider to the office of emergency medical services.<br /> <br />