A report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office confirms a trend that workers' compensation regulators have been pointing out for years: Air ambulance rates are rising significantly.
The rates doubled, in fact, in just four years: The median price of an air ambulance transport was around $15,000 in 2010; by 2014, it was roughly $30,000.
The report, released last month, could give some momentum to a long-stalled U.S. Senate bill that aims to exempt air ambulances from the federal Airline Deregulation Act. The exemption would give state and federal agencies more control over a...
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