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  <name>Legislative Council</name>
  <date date="2025-02-05T14:15:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <parliamentName>Parliament of South Australia</parliamentName>
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    <name>Answers to Questions</name>
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      <name>SA Ambulance Service</name>
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          <heading>SA Ambulance Service</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Deputy Leader of the Opposition</name>
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          <question date="2025-02-05T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="413">
            <name>SA Ambulance Service</name>
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            <timeStamp time="2025-02-06T00:00:00+10:30" />413 <by role="member" id="6827" referenceid="b04d90ce5a204cc6b8913d2697f86b49">The Hon. H.M. GIROLAMO </by>().29 October 2024).  Can the Minister for Health and Wellbeing advise:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;What is the dollar amount of SA Ambulance service fees and charges collected, broken down by incident response type for each of the below questions: Retrievals for compensable patients, emergency, non-emergency, and treat no transport? </inserted>
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          <inserted>Please provide in table format, for financial years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24 for each of the below questions. </inserted>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;What is the total number of SA Ambulance service fees and charges collected? </inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;What is the dollar amount of overdue SA Ambulance service fees and charges? </inserted>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;What is the number of overdue SA Ambulance service fees and charges?</inserted>
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      <talker role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="3f4e88a2650e424387ef735d1c27c93b" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. K.J. MAHER</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Aboriginal Affairs</name>
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          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Attorney-General</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector</name>
          </portfolio>
          <portfolio id="">
            <name>Special Minister of State</name>
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          <question date="2025-02-05T03:45:00+10:30" qonNum="413">
            <name>SA Ambulance Service</name>
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            <by role="member" id="4697" referenceid="c1607c57d2294390bdc2b07c15f35010" uid="3f4e88a2650e424387ef735d1c27c93b">The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector, Special Minister of State):</by>  The Minister for Health and Wellbeing has advised:</inserted>
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          <inserted>1.&amp;#x9;As outlined in the SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) annual report, in the financial year 2023-24, SAAS received income of $129,425,000 for ambulance services rendered.</inserted>
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        <text id="202502050e0a74cc72bf4c0a80001148">
          <inserted>SAAS estimates that in a financial year, revenue fees received are on average broken into the following rounded percentages:</inserted>
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            <table>
              <row>
                <cell>Emergency fees </cell>
                <cell>91%</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Non-emergency fees </cell>
                <cell>5%</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Treat no transport </cell>
                <cell>2%</cell>
              </row>
              <row>
                <cell>Compulsory third party insurance </cell>
                <cell>2%</cell>
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          <inserted>2.&amp;#x9;As outlined in the SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) annual reports, SAAS received the payment of the following amount in fees and charges:</inserted>
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            <table>
              <row>
                <cell>2021-22</cell>
                <cell>$123,921,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>2022-23</cell>
                <cell>$177,264,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>2023-24</cell>
                <cell>$133,946,000</cell>
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          <inserted>SAAS does not undertake reporting on the number of individual accounts for fees and charges.</inserted>
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          <inserted>3.&amp;#x9;As outlined in the SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) annual reports, SAAS has the following amounts of current debtors as at the 30 July of the respective year:</inserted>
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                <cell>2021-22</cell>
                <cell>$54,113,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>2022-23</cell>
                <cell>$59,402,000</cell>
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              <row>
                <cell>2023-24</cell>
                <cell>$53,320,000</cell>
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        <text id="202502050e0a74cc72bf4c0a80001158">
          <inserted>SAAS does not undertake reporting on the amount owing on fees and charges alone, this is managed by SA Government Fines Enforcement and Recovery Unit.</inserted>
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          <inserted>4.&amp;#x9;SA Ambulance Service does not undertake reporting on the number of fees and charges owed, this is managed by SA Government Fines Enforcement and Recovery Unit.</inserted>
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