Half of Indiana counties contain ambulance deserts - an area where residents live more than 25 minutes from where an ambulance is stationed. Ambulance providers say payment issues are one factor in that lack of access. A bill passed by the Senate would establish requirements for how health plans pay out-of-network ambulance providers.
some of our rural areas are also what we call ambulance deserts where there is so much distance between the ability for an ambulance service to arrive to someone and then when you add additional transport and now having to transport people out of the county, that time is lives and that s what we have seen in our county. ainsley: that s exactly right. so many states are effected. thank you so much, dr. booth, for allowing us to learn more about this. hopefully we can do something about it. thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. coming up. open flood gate. thousands of migrants are breaching the arizona border through the doors and the wall. you heard that. doors and the wall. one saying we thought the agents were going to tell us something but we just walked in. oklahoma s governor kevin stitt has pledged to help with this crisis and he is going to join us. i suffer with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis. i was on a journey for a really long time to find some relief. cosentyx works
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Ambulance Deserts impact 4.5 million Americans moving the struggle for accessible healthcare outside the doors of clinics or hospitals. The biggest place of impact for most states is rural communities and the same applies to Indiana as 60.7% of ambulance deserts exist in rural counties. So, what can those living […]