SIERRA MEDICAL SERVICES ALLIANCE v. KENT

No. 14-56483.

883 F.3d 1216 (2018)

SIERRA MEDICAL SERVICES ALLIANCE; Care Flight; Riggs Ambulance Service, Inc.; Schaefer Ambulance Service, Inc.; American Ambulance of Visalia; Desert Ambulance Service; San Luis Ambulance Service, Inc.; First Responder Emergency Medical Services-Sacramento, Inc.; First Responder Emergency Medical Services, Inc.; Imperial Ambulance Services, Inc.; Sierra Lifestar, Inc., DBA Lifestar Ambulance; Del Norte Ambulance, Inc.; Piner's Ambulance, Inc.; American Legion Post 108 Ambulance Service; Progressive Ambulance, Inc., DBA Liberty Ambulance; Hall Ambulance Service, Inc.; City Ambulance of Eureka, Inc.; Patterson District Ambulance; K.W.P.H. Enterprises, DBA American Ambulance; Community Ambulance Services, Inc.; Sierra Ambulance Service, Inc.; Care Ambulance Service, Inc.; Delano Ambulance Service, Inc.; Kern Emergency Medical Transportation Corporation, DBA Kern Ambulance; Westmed Ambulance, Inc.; California Ambulance Association; Regional Emergency Medical Services Authority; Metro West Ambulance Service, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jennifer KENT, Director of the Department of Health Care Services of the State of California, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 6, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Hagemann (argued), and Kevin R. Warren , M.K. Hagemann P.C., Century City, California, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Hadara R. Stanton (argued), Deputy Attorney General; Susan M. Carson , Supervising Deputy Attorney General; Julie Weng-Gutierrez , Senior Assistant Attorney General; Office of the Attorney General, San Francisco, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Ronald Lee Gilman, and Kim McLane Wardlaw, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

California law requires ambulance companies to provide emergency medical transportation irrespective of a patient's ability to pay. To at least partially offset the cost of providing such transportation, California has an established reimbursement rate for those companies voluntarily enrolled as providers...

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