Patients are getting hit with big bills for air-ambulance rides that insurers often won’t cover. Emergency room doctors say the federal government needs to step in.
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called the bill “egregious” and said, “We are working diligently to try to resolve this for the family.”in February urging the federal government to require insurers to presume medical necessity for air-ambulance use, subject to retrospective review. “Clinical determinations made by a referring physician should not be second-guessed by a plan,” read the letter from, said providers often don’t submit medical records, impeding a full evaluation. He said AHIP also suspects that air-ambulance companies sometimes favor more distant hospitals that contract with them over closer facilities.More than a year later, England is still fighting her bill.
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