{"id":1248,"date":"2019-04-10T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2019\/04\/10\/lege-trend-bills-to-allow-ride-share-drive-medicaid-patients-to-appointments\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T02:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T02:33:00","slug":"lege-trend-bills-to-allow-ride-share-drive-medicaid-patients-to-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/lege-trend-bills-to-allow-ride-share-drive-medicaid-patients-to-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege TREND. Bills to allow Ride Share Drive Medicaid Patients to Appointments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=63305&amp;SessionId=87\">HB 411 (2019 |FL)<\/a>\u00a0would allow ride sahre to enter medical transportation services for non-emergency transportation.<\/p>\n<p>How would it work? ride share would contract with managed care providers<\/p>\n<p>What benefits of ride sahre medical transportation\u00a0contracting?\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>save the state Medicaid money<\/li>\n<li>easier for patients to make doctors appointments<\/li>\n<li>will improve patient\u00a0outcomes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A USC study examined a LYFT pilot program for non-emergency medical transportation and found that it\u00a0improved quality of life for seniors by 90%<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.watchdog.org\/florida\/bills-would-allow-uber-lyft-to-provide-non-emergency-transport\/article_2e189690-5ac5-11e9-a7f6-63bd20f7c2aa.html\">Florida Watchdog |\u00a0Bills would allow Uber, Lyft to provide non-emergency transport for Medicaid patients<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/floridapolitics.com\/archives\/292808-uber-latest-fight-tallahassee\">Florida Politics |\u00a0Take an Uber and call me in the morning: Ride-hailing service wants in on Medicaid transport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myfloridahouse.gov\/Sections\/Bills\/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=63305&amp;SessionId=87\">HB 411 (2019 |FL)<\/a>\u00a0would allow ride sahre to enter medical transportation services for non-emergency transportation.<\/p>\n<p>How would it work? ride share would contract with managed care providers<\/p>\n<p>What benefits of ride sahre medical transportation\u00a0contracting?\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>save the state Medicaid money<\/li>\n<li>easier for patients to make doctors appointments<\/li>\n<li>will improve patient\u00a0outcomes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A USC study examined a LYFT pilot program for non-emergency medical transportation and found that it\u00a0improved quality of life for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,10,50,26,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-public-transit","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}