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Ground ambulance billing rules would change under this bill, which raises the state's base rate for ambulance transport starting July 1, 2026 — for example, increasing the paramedic transport rate from $2,383.73 to $2,426.64 — and folds the cost of medications directly into that base rate rather than billing patients for medications separately at a set "medication maximum cost." Beginning in 2027, the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services would be authorized to adjust these base rates once each year using a medical inflation index. Health insurance plans and workers' compensation carriers would be required to pay the base rate plus mileage as an allowable expense, and if a patient's insurance doesn't cover that full amount, the ambulance provider could bill the patient for the difference. The bill also removes a previously required legislative audit of ambulance rates and payments, and eliminates the scheduled 2027 expiration dates on these ambulance billing and reimbursement rules, making them permanent, while also requiring Medicaid to reimburse ambulance providers at the highest rate allowed under the program's funding structure.