Rose Law Group client Rural/Metro opposes new ambulance operator setting up shop in Phoenix

Screen Shot 2014-10-14 at 3.41.12 PMBy Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal

Scottsdale-based Rural/Metro Corp., which is healing from a Chapter 11 reorganization, is against a competitor coming into the Phoenix region’s ambulance market.

While Arizona hospitals no longer are required to show the state that there is a need before expanding into a market, ambulance companies still must prove there is a need before they are issued a Certificate of Necessity, or CON, by the Arizona Department of Health Services.

American Medical Response Inc. is trying to enter the Maricopa County ambulance market, but Rural/Metro is doing its best to keep the competitor out of the Valley. AMR is part of Greenwood Village, Colorado-based Envision Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: EVHC)

Glenn Kasprzyk, COO for AMR, said his company also has applied for a CON in Pima County.

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