When air ambulances first took off in the 1980s, they were mostly about getting patients to a hospital as fast as possible. But now they can operate more like mobile intensive-care units, the crew of ...

A classic retort to someone getting upset about an issue is, "Hey, you don't have to make a federal case of it." But when it comes to air ambulance passengers walking out to their mailbox after a ...

Staff from I-70 Medical Center and Air Evac Lifeteam transport a patient to University Medical Center ICU in Columbia, Mo., from I-70 Medical Center in Sweet Springs, Mo. on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008.

When transported by a private equity-owned or publicly traded air ambulance, patients had a 55 percent chance of receiving a surprise out-of-network balance bill of $26,507 on average in 2017, a Nov.

Senator Fred Akshar, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo, and Assemblyman Joseph Angelino gathered this week to celebrate signing of a law that allows New York air ambulances to carry blood products. They ...

Costs linked to helicopter air ambulance services among commercial insurers have risen 27.6% since 2017, a substantial increase that has inflated costs from $19,210 to $24,507 in 2020, according to a ...

The University of Texas Health East Texas celebrated 40 years of AIR 1, the first air ambulance service in East Texas that ...

SPECIFICALLY FOR THE CORONAVIRUS. THE REST WERE HOSPITALIZED FOR SOME OTHER REASON BUT LATER TESTED POSITIVE. RHEYA: AIR AMBULANCES FOR DES MOINES HOSPITALS SAY THEIR FLIGHTS TO CARRY CORONAVIRUS ...

Bigger backboards, sturdier gurneys, ambulances with a wider entrance -- the growing girth of the American public translates to a bigger patient for medical service providers. Now, Airlift Northwest ...

HELENA — When Ron Pecarina woke up on Saturday, July 19, 2014, he couldn't move his right leg. His wife, Lori Bigwood-Pecarina, pulled the car out of the garage, and Pecarina crawled to it — it was ...

What do Durham, Orange, and Pitt counties have that Wake County does not -- air ambulances. Wake County has no air emergency service. WakeMed wants to add a helicopter to its ambulance fleet, but on ...