{"id":24614,"date":"2025-07-09T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24614"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:38:23","slug":"state-laws-to-stop-surprise-ambulance-bills-face-pushback-from-insurers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24614","title":{"rendered":"State laws to stop surprise ambulance bills face pushback from insurers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell and Katheryn Houghton for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole Silva&#8217;s 4-year-old daughter was headed to a relative&#8217;s house near the southern Colorado town of La Jara when a vehicle T-boned the car she was riding in. A cascade of ambulance rides ensued \u2014 a ground ambulance to a local hospital, an air ambulance to Denver, and another ground ambulance to Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/07\/09\/nx-s1-5460016\/state-laws-surprise-ambulance-bills-colorado\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/07\/09\/nx-s1-5460016\/state-laws-surprise-ambulance-bills-colorado\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width:119px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rae Ellen Bichell and Katheryn Houghton for NPR) Nicole Silva&#8217;s 4-year-old daughter was headed to a relative&#8217;s house near<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,200,56],"tags":[385,238,954],"class_list":["post-24614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-insurance","category-medical-debt","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-surprise-ambulance-bills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24615,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24614\/revisions\/24615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}