As the number of air ambulance flights in the U.S. has nearly doubled in recent years, it is more common for patients to encounter high medical expenses due to billing disputes, rising flight prices ...

Alicia Wieberg's mother, Debra Prichard, took an air ambulance flight to Vanderbilt University Medical Center last year before her death, The flight cost $81,739.40 -- and none of it was covered by ...

Norfolk, Va-based Sentara Healthcare’s regional air ambulance, Nightingale, took its first flight Feb. 25, 1984 and has since completed more than 18,000 accident-free flights. The helicopter serves as ...

“I had about a 6-inch-wide exposed flesh gap that I could see below," he said. This story appeared on Kaiser Health News. It was the first — and only — time Dr. Naveed Khan, a 35-year-old radiologist, ...

Last September, John Andrews suffered a brain aneurysm and was airlifted via helicopter by Life Flight Network from Anaconda to Missoula. He was charged $34,200, his health insurer paid almost half, ...

Medicare may cover air ambulance transportation if a person has a medical emergency and needs to get to a hospital from somewhere a ground ambulance cannot reach. Air ambulances are usually ...

The families of two victims killed when an air ambulance crashed in a Philadelphia neighborhood earlier this year have filed ...

About a third of FAI air ambulance flights are intensive care transports, compared to about 8% for many other operators. Credit: FAI Aviation Group There are many aspects of the business aviation ...

The enhanced security measures are to ensure that there are no untoward incidents, it said in the advisory, dated November 10 ...