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What good is a free ride if it only takes you to a hospital?
by zecho 13y ago
What good is a free ride if it only takes you to a hospital?
- rdl 13y agoA lot of patients need to go for visits with doctors at the hospital or in an associated complex. Many of those patients don't need special medical transport, or at the very least could go with BLS, but there are places where ALS gets used for everything and thus is very expensive. Medicare patients don't see this, but the reimbursement from Medicare to EMS is very small, too. If you have a substantial elderly or sick population, it can be a real problem.