Released: November 21, 2017

Ambulance fees drive up patient costs

Source: Melissa Bailey, Washington Post

One patient got a $3,660 bill for a four-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from a hospital that could not handle his case to another that could. Still another found herself marooned at an out-of-network hospital, where she’d been taken by ambulance without her consent.

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