US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-04, ch. 15, § 20
Payment Rules
B3-4115, 5116, PM AB-02-131
Medicare covered ambulance services are paid based on the Medicare ambulance fee schedule.
The following subsections describe how contractors calculate the payment amount. Section 20.1
and its subsections describe how the payment amount is calculated for the fee schedule. The
other subsections in §20 provide information on certain components of the payment amount
(e.g., mileage) or specialized payment amounts (e.g., air ambulance).
History
(Rev. 1696; Issued: 03-06-09; Effective/Implementation Date: 04-06-09)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
5680ba140c7de8ddf3f313910b31ebea8d58192caa72680271101725244f30d6
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