Midwood Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc., Billed for Nonemergency Ambulance Transport Services That Did Not Comply With Medicare Requirements

Medicare covers nonemergency ambulance transportation when furnished to a beneficiary whose medical condition is such that other means of transportation could endanger the beneficiary's health. Medicare paid Midwood Ambulance & Oxygen Service, Inc. (Midwood), an ambulance company in Brooklyn, New York, $23.5 million for 114,000 claims with payments of $100 or more for nonemergency ambulance transport services provided during 2014 and 2015 (audit period).