Provider Network Relations

TMS has subcontracted with literally hundreds of private sector transportation companies to effectuate quality transportation services around the nation. TMS and its affiliates have almost two decades of managing a transportation provider network of companies and agencies of all shapes and sizes. TMS Principals have both operated and worked with large, horizontally–integrated companies that operate hundreds of taxicabs, wheelchair vans, ambulances, and full–length buses, and we have subcontracted with home-based, single-member businesses with one or two wheelchair vans in both rural and urban environments. The development and retention of our comprehensive provider network is the key to our proven success.

TMS involves our local transportation companies in a framework that is perceived as fair and impartial, while emphasizing customer service and teamwork among companies. TMS’s philosophy and management style with providers is based on the belief that the retention of qualified providers in longer-term relationships is of paramount importance to a successful coordinated transportation program. Retention of quality operators provides numerous benefits: improved choices and flexibility among providers, providers with experience in the system and local knowledge, project understanding and relationships between the providers and clients, overall buy–in priority given to the project, and so on.

TMS objectively evaluates the transportation picture geographically, evaluating traffic patterns, road systems, and frequently traveled destinations in a manner that a local company might not see. TMS matches each trip to the most appropriate provider lowering total NEMT costs by ensuring that one company is not running all the trips all over the county generating costly excess mileage charges. Instead, trips are spread over multiple transportation providers across the service area still returning revenue to the local economy, but allowing shorter road times for each trip. TMS relies partially on multi-loading and shared ride route scenarios to create cost savings for each client. TMS and its affiliates have found in its two decades of experiences that multi-loading scenarios are far easier to achieve when the transportation provider’s fleet depot is close to the trip recipient. By using multiple providers, TMS has many fleet depots from which to generate a multi–loaded trip.

For more information on TMS’s Provider Network team, click on a name below:

• Louis Rich, Director of Provider Network

If you would like to become part of the Transportation Provider Network, please click here to complete an application.

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