The ambulance that responds to a 911 call is often out of the sick or injured person's insurance network. The bills can be ...

Although the U.S. outlawed most surprise medical bills starting this year, people who face a health emergency could still find themselves on the hook for hundreds of dollars — or more — in ...

A panel of government advisers finally has endorsed ideas for Congress to solve the particularly thorny problem of surprise ambulance bills, including a cap on how much patients would have to pay if ...

One night in November 2021, 11 weeks into her pregnancy, Carolyn Provine started bleeding — a lot. When she passed out, her wife and mother-in-law called an ambulance and drove 21 miles to the ...

“Surprise” out-of-network bills have come under close scrutiny, and while ambulance transportation is known to be a large component of the problem, its impact is poorly understood. We measured the ...

What if you called 911 for an ambulance, and no one answered? In rural Berkshires, where some towns are half an hour drive from the nearest hospital, alarming trends in emergency medical service ...

When Jamil Bangura realized that he and his family had signs of Ebola, in September 2014, he did what he had been told to do. Following instructions from the Sierra Leonean government, he didn't try ...

Emergency transportation in a publicly-owned ambulance in Massachusetts costs about twice the national average, according to an upcoming report from the state’s Health Policy Commission. The report, ...

Stefan Hofer's ambulance company, West Traill EMS, in Mayville, North Dakota, has received only one or two calls that weren’t related to Covid-19 over the past two months. But he said the case count ...