Healthcare industry: medical transportation, medical billing, homecare business

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Publisher

RouteGenie

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Jul 2021

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

201 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Colorado Rate Cuts Close NEMT Providers | September NEMT News 2026

   September was defined by costs providers do not set.Colorado's July 1 rate change dropped the per-trip ambulatory rate to $12.15, down from $36.40, and mileage to $2.74. Transit-to-Care, serving the Pikes Peak region, closed September 1. Van With a Plan stopped transporting about 25 families and let roughly 15 people go, but it remains in operation. Those trips did not disappear. More than twenty providers still serve El Paso County, new provider enrollment reopens October 1, and the state moves to a single broker January 1.Fuel moved the same direction. Regular gasoline reached $4.48 a gallon for the week of September 21, up about 43 cents since mid-August. Diesel set a record weekly average above $6.50.The month was not all pressure. Iowa filed a state plan amendment adding non-emergency medical transportation for its Health and Wellness Plan population, creating new trip volume where none existed. New York City released Vision Zero Reimagined, a ten-year plan whose fleet safety commitments reach contracted and regulated fleets. Waymo launched transit rewards in the Bay Area, positioning autonomous service as a connection to transit rather than a replacement. And the Department of Transportation released America Leads, its updated national strategy for automated vehicles, with no binding rules yet and a roadmap running through 2030.Three Medicaid transportation contracts also changed hands in Virginia, Washington D.C., and Orange County, California. The lesson across all three is the same: a transition date on paper is not a transition date until the award clears and your paperwork is current.We close with the new episode of Inside the Lamp, where Cameron Craig talks with Jim Ingalls, Director of Operations at MediCab of Rochester. Jim joined as a driver in 1991 and is direct about the squeeze. Insurance on thirty-two vehicles ran over $500,000 this year while Medicaid reimbursement stayed flat.The through line is straightforward. The rate, the wage, and the price at the pump are set somewhere else. Routing, verification, credentialing, and service mix are set by you.Read the full issue: https://routegenie.com/blog/genie-journal-september-2026/Subscribe to The Genie Journal: https://go.routegenie.com/newsletterLearn about RouteGenie: https://routegenie.com

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   $500K on Insurance and Still Fully Booked: Jim Ingalls, MediCab of Rochester

   Driver in 1991. Director of Operations today. Jim Ingalls has spent 35 years at MediCab of Rochester, and he doesn't sugarcoat what it takes to run NEMT in New York right now. Cameron Craig sits down with Jim to talk about how a company started in 1975 out of a basement in Rochester became a 32-vehicle operation that's fully booked every day. Jim covers losing the adult day program business to a state rate cut, pivoting into car transports, and why they now run more taxis than wheelchair vans. He also gets into the real cost of doing business: over $500,000 a year on vehicle insurance, Medicaid rates that haven't kept pace with minimum wage, and GPS breadcrumb verification that can hold up payment for weeks when an appointment gets canceled. Plus how he got longtime drivers to buy into new technology, including an 80-year-old driver whose career got extended by it, and why the dash cams he fought against turned into his biggest win of the year. 00:00 Intro 00:39 The MediCab of Rochester story 03:00 From fax and paper to software 04:47 Getting drivers on board with technology 10:31 Fleet mix and the pivot away from adult day programs 13:01 GPS verification and deviation requests in New York 17:29 Insurance, wages, and Medicaid reimbursement rates 20:50 Advice for new operators 22:29 Dispatch: pre-planned routes vs on the fly 23:58 The dash cam win 25:50 What's next for MediCab Watch the full episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJI2vZL9Gfg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJI2vZL9Gfg) If you're building something interesting in transportation or care and want to join us on Inside the Lamp, fill out our guest form: https://forms.gle/RnaYKHUJsn4JtrNh7 (https://forms.gle/RnaYKHUJsn4JtrNh7)

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   31 Aug 2026

   $12M in Fake Medicaid Rides and a Broker Shakeup | Genie Journal Recap, August 2026

   Four people were charged this month over twelve million dollars in Medicaid transportation claims, and the operation behind it was never a transportation company. Prosecutors say it manufactured ride data and spoofed GPS coordinates, then supplied it to companies that billed Medicaid for trips that never happened. That is one of six stories in the August Genie Journal Recap, your monthly update on the regulatory, financial, and operational shifts shaping medical transportation. In this episode: (00:19) RouteGenie at NEMTAC Transform 2026 in Orlando, where accountability ran through the whole agenda (01:13) DOJ charges the "War Room" in a $12M Medicaid transportation fraud case, and what it means that the claims were caught as unmatched (03:04) Alabama, West Virginia and North Dakota put roughly $8.5M behind NEMT vehicles and wheelchair-accessible capacity (04:40) A 125-mile wheelchair ride to the Wisconsin State Capitol (05:47) Maine's high court upholds Modivcare's $750M MaineCare contract, and Montana moves to Modivcare on October 1 (07:03) Nevada clears thousands of robotaxis for Las Vegas, and why the accessibility gap still matters (08:23) RouteGenie now integrates directly with Uber Health (08:52) A new Inside the Lamp episode with BraunAbility, plus Cameron Craig on the SourceForge Podcast August rewarded the same provider throughout: the one who can document the work, enroll early, and deliver the hands-on service technology still cannot. Subscribe to The Genie Journal newsletter: https://go.routegenie.com/newsletter (https://go.routegenie.com/newsletter) Broker changes guide: https://routegenie.com/blog/nemt-broker-changes/ (https://routegenie.com/blog/nemt-broker-changes/) Inside the Lamp with BraunAbility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0Yib8Ho7E (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN0Yib8Ho7E) Sources: U.S. Department of Justice, Alabama Governor's Office, West Virginia Department of Health, North Dakota HHS, Wisconsin Examiner, Maine Morning Star, Maine Supreme Judicial Court, Montana DPHHS, TechCrunch, NEMTAC.

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