Ambulance Service
Costs are fully covered for licensed ambulance service to or
from the nearest hospital, skilled nursing facility or hospice
where the covered patient can get needed medical care or
treatment. Ambulance travel from a hospital to a skilled
nursing facility is also covered 100%. Use of an ambulance
when not medically necessary, or when a lower cost mode
of transport would be sufficient, is not covered.
(Click here
for the definition of medically necessary care.) Air
ambulance service will be covered only when the requirement
for air transport is necessitated by a valid emergency
and only this form of transport will accomplish the medically
necessary delivery of the patient to an adequate
treatment setting.
