The cost of an average ambulance ride has risen hundreds of dollars in recent years due in large part to advanced life support services that comprise more than half of all private ground ambulance claims, according to a new analysis from FAIR Health.
These services, which provide a higher level of care for greater reimbursement, rose slightly from 2017 to 2020 to represent 51.5% of emergency ground ambulance claim lines by the study’s final year, the healthcare transparency group wrote in a review of its largest-in-the-nation repository of private claims.
