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LEE COUNTY, Fla. — One third of patients who depend on emergency transportation services in Lee County don’t pay their bills. The county is left writing off the debt.
Every year, ambulances in Lee County make more than 52,000 trips transporting patients in the air and on the ground.
Last year $8.2 million in emergency transportation bills went unpaid. More than half the debt comes from companies like Medicare and Medicaid, which are contracted to only pay a certain amount.
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