01-15-2008, 10:37 PM
In most cases, Medicare will not cover ambulance transport between hospitals if the patient is well enough to travel by car. If she's well enough to travel by car, she's not an inpatient-to-inpatient transfer. She'd be discharged from one hospital and sent to be admitted to the next one as a new patient.
If you really want to know, ask the hospital's utilization management office or social worker. If it's not covered by Medicare, the ambulance company will probably require you to sign something agreeing to pay before they'd be willing to take her. Medical transport is a dollar-driven business - if there's not a funding source, they won't take the patient.
If you really want to know, ask the hospital's utilization management office or social worker. If it's not covered by Medicare, the ambulance company will probably require you to sign something agreeing to pay before they'd be willing to take her. Medical transport is a dollar-driven business - if there's not a funding source, they won't take the patient.