Latest Ambulance Headlines
All the headlines from our Ambulance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Glatfelter Expands Commercial Ambulance Program to Additional States
Feb 2 2016 // Glatfelter Commercial Ambulance (GCA) is expanding into several new states. After an initial rollout in Pennsylvania and New Jersey last year, GCA plans to expand to Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, Ohio and Texas...
Texas Firm to Pay Over $3M to Settle Ambulance Kickback Claims
Dec 2 2015 // A Texas company that operates nursing care facilities will pay nearly $3.2 million to settle allegations of receiving kickbacks from ambulance companies. Regent Management Services of Galveston oversees 11 nursing...
Massachusetts Officials Continue Fight Against Opiate Epidemic
Aug 25 2015 // In the past six months alone, Kevin MacLean of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, has seen more drug-overdose deaths on the streets than he did in the previous five years. “In 2015, we’re going to be shocked by the...
Federal Government Sues Florida Ambulance Service over $28M in False Claims
Jun 18 2015 // The federal government is suing a Jacksonville ambulance service over alleged false billing and other schemes. The Florida Times-Union reports that the company is accused of submitting false claims to federally subsidized...
National Interstate Launches Ambulance Operator Alternative Risk Transfer Program
May 5 2015 // National Interstate Insurance Co. has launched MEDIC, a new alternative risk transfer (ART) program catering to for-profit emergency and non-emergency ambulance operators. MEDIC will be open to operators nationwide, and...
Texas Legislator Guilty Of Misdemeanors in Ambulance Chasing Scheme
Nov 10 2014 // A Texas legislator accused in an ambulance chasing scheme has been found guilty of six counts of misdemeanor solicitation of professional employment, a lesser charge than the felony barratry charge he faced. A Montgomery...
Ebola Tests Insurers’ Medical Evacuation Services As Airlines Cut Flights
Oct 13 2014 // Leading companies offering medical evacuation services are drawing a line at flying Ebola patients out of West Africa for treatment abroad as the cost and the complexities of the deadly epidemic grow. Several airlines have...
80 People Being Monitored in Dallas Ebola Case
Oct 2 2014 // More than 80 people in Dallas are being monitored for symptoms of Ebola after coming into contact with patient Thomas Eric Duncan or others who Duncan had met, health officials said. The people have been asked to report to...
Floor Collapses at Texas Home, 36 Taken to Hospitals
Jun 30 2014 // A floor collapsed under a large crowd of people gathered for a religious event at a suburban Houston home, sending three dozen people to hospitals, though most suffered minor injuries, authorities said. The collapse...
$5.9M Settlement Proposed in Acadian Ambulance Lawsuit
Jun 27 2014 // A hearing on a proposed settlement in the $5.9 million class action lawsuit against Lafayette-based Acadian Ambulance company is scheduled for today in Louisiana’s Avoyelles Parish. The Advertiser reports 440...
Delaware Senate Bill Would Fund Volunteer Ambulance Services
May 16 2014 // The state Senate is set to vote on one of a series of bills aimed at providing more money to politically powerful volunteer fire companies who say their ambulance services are losing money. The bill to be voted on Thursday...
National Interstate Launches New Ambulance Insurance Product
Jan 10 2014 // National Interstate Insurance Co. has launched a new insurance program targeted towards for-profit emergency and non-emergency ambulance transportation operations. The company will began accepting applications on January...
Nevada HOA To Pay $65K After Banning Family’s Ambulance
Nov 1 2013 // A Las Vegas homeowners association agreed to pay $65,000 to a family after refusing to allow them to park an ambulance they used for their disabled son in the driveway, federal officials said Wednesday. The HOA admits no...
Penn. Woman Arrested for Allegedly Adding Coverage While in Ambulance
Oct 22 2012 // A Philadelphia woman was arrested last Friday on allegations that immediately following a car accident and while still in an ambulance, she called her insurer to add comprehensive collision coverage to her insurance...
La. Jury: Acadian Owes $117M For Ambulance Wreck
Aug 7 2012 // Acadian Ambulance Service owes $117 million to a woman left paralyzed and brain-damaged when the ambulance she was in crashed into a sugar-cane truck on the way to a hospital in December 2010, an Iberville Parish, La. jury...
Kentucky Officials Building Ambu-Buses for Disaster Recovery
May 7 2012 // Behold the ambu-bus. Authorities in Kentucky are making use of old school buses by turning them into ambulances. Each one can carry up to 18 patients, which officials say will be of great help in case of a major accident...
Lawsuit Says Ambulance Firm Dissected Man’s Brain
Feb 23 2012 // A Northern California coroner is being sued by the parents of a man whose brain was given to an ambulance company for dissection. The New York couple’s 30-year-old son was killed in a 2008 car crash. The San...
Virginia County to Charge for Ambulance Trips
Jun 22 2011 // Virginia’s Prince William County plans to begin charging health insurance companies for ambulance trips. On July 1, the county will start billing insurance companies when a patient is taken to the hospital by its...
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Lower Court on Texas ‘Ambulance Chasing’ Bill
Jun 20 2011 // A federal court of appeals has overturned a lower court’s ruling that an “anti-ambulance chasing” bill in Texas is unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined that U.S....
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Ruling on Texas ‘Ambulance Chasing’ Bill
Jun 10 2011 // A federal court of appeals has overturned a lower court’s ruling that an “anti-ambulance chasing” bill in Texas is unconstitutional. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined that U.S....
