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  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>SA Ambulance Service Back-billing</name>
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          <heading>SA Ambulance Service Back-billing</heading>
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        <name>Mrs HURN</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Schubert</electorate>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30" qonNum="61">
            <name>SA Ambulance Service Back-billing</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-06-18T00:00:00+09:30" />61 61<by role="member" id="6887" referenceid="a698e5b3774342a1b25d8bbef65f519c" uid="a776d48ddb2b4d57b6cacc9a630b2b18">Mrs HURN (Schubert) </by>(12 September 2023).  How much money is the government expected to recover through the back-billing of South Australians who used the SA Ambulance Service?</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;How many South Australians should expect to receive an invoice over the next three years?</inserted>
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        <name>The Hon. C.J. PICTON</name>
        <house>House of Assembly</house>
        <electorate id="">Kaurna</electorate>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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          <question date="2025-06-17T01:30:00+09:30" qonNum="61">
            <name>SA Ambulance Service Back-billing</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4841" referenceid="b5dd6c590e5b44e38a00cc2313e6e5cc" uid="57a50f4f406440a8b865ede70f36115a">The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing):</by>  I have been advised: </inserted>
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          <inserted>As of 17 January 2024, SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is currently processing at the expected invoicing key performance indicator. Consequently, SAAS does not expect any further 'back-billing' invoices to be generated.</inserted>
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          <inserted>SAAS will continue to generate invoices for those patients requiring transport and do not have SAAS ambulance cover or private health insurance covering ambulance transports; or for transports as a result of motor vehicle accidents.</inserted>
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