1. Are You A Shared Ride Customer?
This low cost Medical Assistance transportation is in jeopardy of being dismantled

2. Medical Assistance Transportation Program (MATP)
Is a Federal Program supported by both Federal and State funding and is an integral part of the Shared Ride coordinated network.

3. This low cost network of transportation is in jeopardy of being dismantled
The State wide introduction of a MATP Brokerage will remove MATP trips from local County control and place them in the hands of private companies.

4. WHAT MATP BROKERAGE WILL MEAN TO LEBANON TRANSIT SHARED RIDE CUSTOMERS
 The negative impacts won’t just be felt by MATP customers. Seniors and persons with disabilities who use the Lebanon Transit Shared Ride Service and PwD Programs may also see increased fares and decreased service.

5. What happened in other states that began to privately broker MATP trips?
Medical Transport Company fined $1 Million for stranding riders
WPRI News – 2019
Disabled patients left stranded, waiting for rides to the doctor
News4Jax – 2018 
Wisconsin to pay $6.3 million more annually for LogistiCare replacement
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal – 2013
…”We’re not saving the money the department originally thought and that was the justification for switching over to a private firm…”
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal – 2013 
‘38 days of hell’: Nursing home advocates lambast Medicaid transporter…”More than 1,000 complaints have been filed…”
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News – 2019
Arkansas cancels non-emergency transport contracts for non-service
Arkansas Democrat Gazette – 2019

6. WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP STOP & STUDY THE PRIVATIZATION OF MATP TRIPS?

7. Contact Governor Wolf’s Office
at and ask that he help halt the award of RFA and STOP and STUDY MATP privatization, including the negative impacts and disruption of service a brokerage model could cause.

8. For more information visit
Lebanontransit.org