It didn’t look good for the teenage driver. Shortly after 7:15 a.m. on a rainy Thursday in May last year, the young man — who lost control of his yellow sports car when it hydroplaned on Saw Mill Run Boulevard and he slammed the vehicle into a utility pole near
AMED plans to develop a document that could help patients appeal what the organization says are recent lower payments from insurance companies for ambulance services that leave patients responsible for larger amounts. Several years ago, commercial insurance firms would pay 80 percent of AMED’s bill perhaps $1,520 on a $1,900 charge, according to AMED […]
AMED is making arrangements with Blair County that would enable the ambulance authority to prosecute patients for theft when those patients refuse to turn over insurance payments intended for AMED. In 2023 alone, AMED has lost $243,000 in revenue because patients enrolled with Highmark didn’t forward checks sent to them by the company after the […]
Commonwealth Court has rejected a Lakemont man’s attempt to hold Penelec responsible for what the man contends was an infringement on his property, when the utility company upgraded a single-phase power line to three-phase to serve AMED’s new headquarters building. In doing so, the appeals court upheld a 2022 ruling by Blair County Court that […]
The struggle a few years ago to accumulate masks, gloves, gowns and other personal protective equipment to deal with COVID-19 has led to a much less urgent though still real problem for some organizations that received personal protective equipment: how to handle the overabundance that remains. Managers are dealing with crowded storage spaces, […]