Marketing your business

By J. Grace Liao, finance intern at Georgia Trans Care

Want to Market your non-emergency medical transportation company? Here are some ideas.

The first important thing to do is to identify those who need transportation services now and in the future. Some examples are nursing homes, dialysis centers, hospitals, medicaid recipients, and any other health facilities. A website called Georgia Nursing Homes provides all the nursing homes you can find in the State of Georgia, including their addresses and phone numbers. Another website DialysisCenters.org helps you search for dialysis centers city by city in the State of Georgia.

Once you are done with collecting clients contact information, conduct an appealing proposal from the view of your potential clients, such as how your company can benefit their companies.

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About NEMTinGa

NEMTinGa is the abbreviation of Non-Emergency Medical Transportation in Georgia. This blog welcomes those who are running business in this industry, those who are looking for transportation services, and those who are interested in knowing more about this industrial trend.

For those who are running business in this industry:

Go to the tab NEMT Business and you can take a look to get ideas for getting your business better. This column contains topics covering finance, marketing, and operating activities in non-emergency medical transportation companies.

For those who are looking for transportation services:

Go to the tab Claimant Care and you can take a look to get ideas about how to improve the quality of lives for people who are in need of medical support. In this column includes transportation service providers information and how to make the lives joyful for those who are in need.

For those who are interested in the industrial trend:

Go to the tab Industry Trend and you can take a look to see the industrial environment of non-emergency medical transportation. This column also covers other issues and trend analysis of other factors that will influence the future of this industry, such as oil price, population structure, government regulation, and etc.

Save the cost on gas

July 15, 2010

By J. Grace Liao, finance intern at Florida & Georgia Trans Care

Fuel cost accounts for large part of the total expense in a non-emergency medical transportation company. The cheaper the gas price, the higher the operating margin for the company.

GeorgiaGasPrices.com collects gas prices of every gas station in the State of Georgia, and ranks the prices from the lowest to the highest. From its homepage it is easy to find the cheapest gas price in the target area in Georgia.

This website also provides the historical gas price chart of the State of Georgia and a gas price map throughout the United States.

The historical gas price chart provides an understanding about the gas price trend, and with an observation for the economy, capital budgeting analyst from and stock analysts following local non-emergency medical transportation companies can form a sound estimation for the future gas price trend in the State of Georgia.

The gas price map enables users who are considering to start up a non-emergency medical transportation company to choose a county with the lowest gas price in the United States. Overall, the southeast, in which the State of Georgia locates, has the regionally lowest gas price.

Transportation service providers

July 15, 2010

By J. Grace Liao, finance intern at Florida & Georgia Trans Care

Below you can find information of companies providing non-emergency medical transportation services in the State of Georgia.

Florida & Georgia Trans Care is a professional non-Emergency medical Transportation, interpretation, wheelchair, and stretcher service company offering services throughout Florida and Georgia. They provide a total logistical service for client organization, active in worker's compensation, healthcare, and benefit management.

1954 Airport Rd Suite 217, Chamblee, GA 30341

(770) 292-0393

Georgia Medical Transportation is a certified Georgia corporation with headquarters in Gwinnett County and serves as a Medicaid transportation provider for the State of Georgia in the East Metro area. They work with individuals, skilled nursing facilities, hospices and outpatient centers on a direct basis, specializing in ambulatory, wheelchair and stretcher transports with 35 vehicles covering the counties of Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett, Rockdale, Newton, Barrow, Hall, Oconee and Clarke.

3755 Harrison Road, Suite 300/400, Loganville, GA 30052

(770) 761-2322

Managed Medical Transport is a privately owned corporation based in Athens, Georgia. Their vehicles service the entire United States, with minimum transport distance 500 miles. In addition to nationwide and long distance transport services, they provide local transportation in Atlanta area using wheelchair and stretcher vans to and from doctors appointments, hospital discharges, and their headquarter in Athens. Local transports may be scheduled in 14 counties surrounding metro Atlanta.

Athens, GA

(770) 339-3055

Critical Care Medflight is a fully licensed and insured certified air ambulance services provider from Georgia, US. It provides complete bed to bed emergency air medical transport service for the patients with care every step of the way. In addition to providing air ambulance services, they also schedule the ground transportation to and from the hospital and airport.

PX Box 245, Lawrenceville, GA 30046

(770) 513-9148

Non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT)

July 15, 2010

By J. Grace Liao, finance intern at Florida & Georgia Trans Care

Picture from New England Wheels

Non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) involves getting a patient to and from the source of medical care when the medical condition is not life threatening. This includes ground vehicles, helicopters, wheelchairs, and stretchers. The goal of the transport is to get the patient from one location to another while offering medical support, rather than to offer field treatment and rapid transport to an emergency facility. Georgia Department of Community Health, Division of Public Health (DPH) regards NEMT as a crucial factor to improve public health in State of Georgia.