The Board of Päijät-Häme Welfare Association has approved the agreement between the owner municipalities on the membership shares for emergency care.
The correction of the municipal billing for emergency care will result in a big bill for Lahti. Lahti will have to pay an extra €3.5 million in emergency care fees to the Päijät-Häme Welfare Consortium for 2017 and 2019.
The owners have agreed on the redistribution of contributions. The agreement was reached after nine of the twelve member municipalities of the grouping requested a self-correction.
In addition to Lahti, Hollola will receive additional contributions for both years and Kärkölkä for 2019.
The bills of other municipalities will decrease. For example, Sysmä will get back a total of almost 800,000 euros. The payment shares of most municipalities will decrease by several hundreds of thousands of euros.
The background is the decision of the Hämeenlinna administrative court, which overturned the distribution of the municipalities’ payment shares from 2018 as illegal.
For that year, Sysmä’s complaint has already led to a repair shop. In retrospect, Lahti received a bill of 1.7 million euros for the primary care contributions.
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