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Non Emergency Medical Transportation Accreditation Commission (NEMTAC) Proudly Announces New Board M

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - Aug. 21, 2018 - PRLog -- The Non Emergency Medical Transportation Accreditation Commission (NEMTAC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Douglas Allen M.D., M.M.M to our Board of Directors. Dr. Allen is a board-certified internist with a masters from Tulane, who has held numerous regional and national administrative leadership positions for over 23 years after transitioning from his clinical work as a hospitalist. His career spans contracted and employed medical groups, health plans, large public and private entities owning medical groups, as well as CMO of a pharmacy benefit management company (now Optum RX). Past employers include Optum's medical group as national

Study Reveals Non-Emergency Medical Transportation (NEMT) is Extremely Cost-Effective and Life-Savin

WASHINGTON (August 1, 2018) – A newly released study commissioned by the Medical Transportation Access Coalition (MTAC) confirms Medicaid NEMT is a highly cost-effective, public-private partnership that helps assure the health and well-being of millions in America. It saves Medicaid, and thereby taxpayers, more than $40 million per month for every 30,000 beneficiaries receiving treatment for one of three conditions covered in the study. The first-of-its-kind study used Medicaid claims data and a survey of nearly 1,000 Medicaid beneficiaries to determine their usage and the benefits realized. Their research focused on three relatively common and expensive diseases for which Medicaid benefic

Companies Respond to an Urgent Health Care Need: Transportation

Workers at RoundTrip in Philadelphia, a start-up that organizes health care transportation. The company has 15 health care partners, many of which operate in dozens of locations, and 200 transportation organizations in its network in more than 23 states. Credit Mark Makela for The New York Times As America’s baby boomers are hitting 65 at a rate of 10,000 a day, and healthier lifestyles are keeping them in their homes longer, demand is escalating for a little talked-about — yet critical — health care-related job: Transporting people to and from nonemergency medical appointments. “It’s going to become a massive phenomena,” said Ken Dychtwald, founder and chief executive of Age Wave, a consult

Stan Sipes to Join Founding Board of Directors for NEMTAC

Veyo’s EVP of Business Development, Stan Sipes, will be joining the founding Board of Directors for the Non Emergency Medical Transportation Accreditation Commission (NEMTAC). NEMTAC is a nonprofit healthcare organization dedicated to championing standards and best practices between providers and those in need of non-emergency medical transportation. Learn more about them at https://www.nemtac.org/. The announcement is reprinted below.https://www.veyo.com/stan-sipes-join-nemtac-board-directors/

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