Overcrowded hospitals strained by coronavirus are increasingly asking ambulance services to bring only critically ill patients to emergency rooms, but paramedic services get paid by Medicare and many insurers only when they physically relocate patients
Empress Emergency Medical Services treated about 1,200 New York-area patients over a recent 30-day period in homes and other places for conditions like low blood sugar, dehydration and asthma, rather than transporting them to a hospital. The service didn’t get paid for any of it.
Overcrowded hospitals strained by the coronavirus crisis are increasingly asking ambulance services to bring only critically ill patients to emergency rooms. Paramedic services, however, get paid by Medicare and many insurers only when they physically...
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