Southwest Ambulance, Inc. v. Arizona Department of Health Services

OPINION

KLEINSCHMIDT, Judge.

The Arizona Department of Health Services appeals from a ruling of the trial court that ambulance rate schedules issued by the Department were invalid because they were not promulgated according to law. We believe that the trial court was correct, and we affirm its judgment. We have no record of what occurred in the administrative hearings which are referred to throughout this opinion. We base our understanding of what occurred in those proceedings on what the parties describe in their briefs.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Prior to 1982, Arizona ambulance companies…