City wants ambulance service to pay overtime costs already covered by others

When Salem’s private ambulance company ran short of crews in recent years, the city Fire Department stepped in to send its own medics, often at overtime rates.

The city is now demanding Falck Northwest cover those costs despite getting payments from insurers and government health plans for some of those costs, an investigation by Salem Reporter has found.

Salem city officials wouldn’t address the apparent effort to get paid twice for the same work. They…