Latest Ambulance Headlines
All the headlines from our Ambulance Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sturgis, South Dakota, Wants Rally Campgrounds to Pay Ambulance Service Fee
Feb 27 2019 // The city of Sturgis, South Dakota, wants campgrounds outside city limits to pay as much as $5,100 to secure ambulance service during this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. City manager Daniel Ainslie said last week...
North Dakota Insurance Regulator Appeals Court Ruling on Air Ambulance Balance Bills
Feb 21 2019 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has appealed a ruling from a U.S. District Court invalidating a law protecting individuals with health insurance from receiving large and unexpected balance bills to the 8th Circuit...
N.D. Insurance Commissioner Named to National Air Ambulance Panel
Jan 30 2019 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread has been nominated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) to serve as the state insurance regulator on the national Air Ambulance and Patient Billing...
Missouri Insurance Dept. Study Criticizes High Costs of Air Ambulances
Jan 21 2019 // A study has found that sick or injured Missourians who need air ambulance services often face steep medical bills, even if they have insurance. The Missouri Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions and Professional...
Missouri Insurance Department Study Criticizes High Costs of Air Ambulances
Jan 14 2019 // Sick or injured Missouri residents who need air ambulance services face thousands of dollars in bills and sometimes aggressive collection efforts if they cannot pay, according to a state report. The average bill after...
Pilot, Paramedic, Nurse Killed in North Dakota Air Ambulance Crash
Nov 21 2018 // An air ambulance on its way to pick up a patient crashed shortly after taking off in North Dakota, killing all three people on board, and military officials involved in the response said the plane may have broken up in...
Ex-CEO of Oklahoma Ambulance Service Settles Kickback Case for $80K
Aug 30 2018 // The former CEO of an Oklahoma ambulance service has agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle a civil kickback case. The U.S. Justice Department revealed Monday that Stephen Williamson will pay an $80,000...
Air Ambulances’ Sky-High Charges Leave Reimbursement Gaps, Lawsuits
Jun 11 2018 // When three-year-old West Cox’s fever hit 107 degrees, doctors called a helicopter. Hours earlier, the toddler, who’d been prescribed an antibiotic for a suspected ear infection, was at home in Princeton, West...
New Jersey Fire Destroys Squad’s Five Ambulances, Causes $2M in Damage
Feb 22 2018 // A fast-moving fire has gutted an ambulance squad’s building in New Jersey, destroying five ambulances and causing at least $2 million in damage. The fire at the American Legion Ambulance Association in Woodstown,...
Texas Appeals Court: Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
Feb 19 2018 // A Texas appeals court has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services. The Austin Court of...
Proposed Hawaii Bill Calls for Insurers to Cover Air Ambulance Rides to Mainland
Feb 12 2018 // A proposed law in the state legislature would require insurance companies to cover air ambulance rides to the mainland for critical procedures not offered in Hawaii. The measure would take the burden off families that are...
Texas Appeals Court Says Federal Law Preempts State on Air Ambulance Fees
Feb 8 2018 // An appellate court in Texas has ruled that federal law, as opposed to state regulation, prevails when it comes to the amount an air ambulance service may charge insurance companies for its services. The ruling of the...
6 Health Insurance Terms That You Need to Understand
Dec 13 2017 // Last week, we looked at some ways that health insurance isn’t like any other kind of insurance. If you missed it, may I commend it to you? 5 Reasons Health Insurance Isn’t Like Anything Else This week,...
Kentucky Emergency Management Building Badly Damaged by Fire
Nov 1 2017 // A fire has significantly damaged the emergency dispatch and ambulance services building in a Kentucky county. Elliott County Emergency Management director Jim Skaggs tells news outlets the fire started on Monday sometime...
North Dakota Insurance Department Publishes Air Ambulance Guide
Aug 1 2017 // The North Dakota Insurance Department has released a guide showing which air ambulance companies operating in North Dakota have contractual agreements (in-network) with the state’s three major health insurance...
Arrowhead’s Ambulance Program Expands Under Its Bellingham Underwriters Division
Apr 27 2017 // San Diego, CA, April 27, 2017 – The Ambulance Program of Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. (Arrowhead) has been recreated with a new carrier and is now managed by Bellingham Underwriters (Bellingham),...
North Dakota Passes Law Regulating Air Ambulance Bills
Apr 19 2017 // Insurance Commissioner Jon Godfread praised the signing of Senate Bill 2231, regarding the regulation of how insurance companies pay for air ambulance services in North Dakota. The bill also requires hospitals to notify...
Texas Mutual: Judge Upholds State Regulation of Air Ambulances
Dec 30 2016 // A Texas district court judge in Austin has upheld the state’s right to regulate fees paid to air ambulances for transporting patients covered by workers’ compensation insurance, according to Texas Mutual...
Family Sues California Ambulance Firm over Mangled Leg Instagram Post
Oct 31 2016 // A San Francisco Bay Area couple has filed a lawsuit against a California ambulance company and a driver for posting a picture of their adult son’s badly mangled leg onto Instagram. The East Bay Times reported that...
Massachusetts Emergency Workers Responding to More Opioid Overdoses
May 26 2016 // It all starts with a $20 to $30 purchase. That’s the average street price of heroin today, according to Framingham, Massachusetts, Police. But if that one purchase is a bad batch, too strong, or if the user injects...
