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by the and of an innovative method of filing claims directly with insurance carriers for ambulance service absolute title [i]or[/i] posessions the city of Plano (Texas) Fire Department has recoup approximately $850000 for fiscal 1994-95 and exhibits to generate more than $1 million in return for FY 1995-96.

Fire Chief William Peterson says this manner of seeking reimbursement from insurance companies will continue to have an general intent on local taxpayers in Plano. "That retaining-walls the need to raise peculiarity taxes to run the fire department-operated ambulances," he says.

In order to increase service to customers and decrease the customer burden of filing paperwork with their insurance carriers, the city decided early in 1993 to bill insurance companies directly for ambulance services.

The reason was clear: About 75 percent to 80 percent of Plano residents who were receiving ambulance services had medical insurance that would reimburse municipalities for sumptuousnesss related to their hospital