Feds Reject Wyoming’s Plan to Regulate Air Ambulance Transport

Route Fifty: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this month rejected a proposal that Wyoming health department officials hoped would allow the state to rein in the high cost of air ambulance service.

Concerned about high costs and uneven access to air ambulance transport, Wyoming health officials had sought approval from CMS to regulate the industry like a public utility and expand Medicaid coverage to all state residents for the specific benefit of ambulance transportation by air.

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