Transportation is inexpensive compared to the high and rapidly growing cost of healthcare, making it more cost-effective to transport a member to preventative care rather than waiting for a serious health condition to arise. Studies prove that increasing transportation access to medical services results in such significant savings that it justifies increased non-emergency medical transportation spending. By offering the medical transportation service to the elderly, individuals with disabilities, and other transportation broker disadvantaged populations, health plans, and state agencies:

• Remove transportation barriers
• Prevent missed medical appointments
• Decrease the impact of chronic disease
• Reduce the costs of inpatient medical treatment to Medicaid recipients
• Save substantial healthcare funding for Medicaid beneficiaries