3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (126+ words) Jackson County commissioners have approved a significant increase in ambulance transport rates. The move is an effort to reduce operating deficits at Jackson County Fire Rescue, according to WMBB. County Commissioners voted 3-2 to raise rates to 300% of the Medicare allowable…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (135+ words) Kentucky EMS agencies say low insurance reimbursements are straining emergency medical services, sometimes leaving communities without ambulances to respond to 911 calls. EMS leaders and medics went to Frankfort to support House Bill 447, which would require insurance companies to increase minimum…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1135+ words) Seth Klamann " The Denver Post In November, Colorado Medicaid officials corrected a mistake. Five years earlier, they'd told contracted transportation providers in metro'Denver'to bill the state as if the providers were specialty ambulances. By 2022, those providers " who transported patients using…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1673+ words) In the fragile, complex ecosystem of the American healthcare system, few services are as mission-critical and chronically underfunded as EMS.1 In this proposed rule change announced by CMS on May 12, 2025, as per the description from CMS, "would end states" ability…...