Montana Ambulance Association

11/14/2025

Medicare add-ins to continue through 2026.

11/11/2025

This Veterans Day, we express our deepest gratitude to the men and women who have served our nation with honor—and to those who continue to serve today. Your courage and sacrifice are the foundation of our freedom. Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸

11/07/2025

MEMSA, Montana Emergency Medical Services Association

The Montana health department this week submitted its proposal to access hundreds of millions of federal dollars to bolster rural hospitals and improve health care access.

11/07/2025

MEMSA, Montana Emergency Medical Services Association

🚑 Protect Access to EMS—Contact Congress Today!
Medicare funding that supports ambulance services has expired, threatening access to lifesaving care nationwide. Many EMS providers—especially in rural and super-rural communities—are struggling to keep their doors open.

Congress can fix this. The Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act (H.R. 2232 / S. 1643) would restore critical funding and help keep ambulances on the road, ready to respond when every second counts.

Take action now: Tell your Members of Congress to support H.R. 2232 / S. 1643 and protect access to emergency medical care in your community. https://ambulance.quorum.us/campaign/145970/

11/06/2025

Thank you Montana Legislature for including the EMS Crisis in Montana as a study topic in your CHS Interim Committee.
We were glad to be on site to support yesterday and look forward to future hearings on how we can sustain a robust ambulance system in our state. 🚑

You have until 5pm to sign up and participate via Zoom! Sorry for the late notice!

11/06/2025

We’re excited that this plan includes proposals for ambulance reimbursement for ‘treatment in place’ (TIP).
Historically, EMS has not been paid unless a transport takes place: that may be changing in Montana. 🚑

HELENA, Mont. – Governor Greg Gianforte and the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) have submitted Montana's application for the federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP).

11/06/2025

11/06/2025

11/05/2025

Broadwater County is facing a shortage of emergency medical technicians, but the Broadwater Community Health Foundation is working to address that.

11/03/2025

We are excited to be engaged with the Montana Legislature's Children, Families, Health, and Human Services Interim Committee (CHS) which has been tasked with studying the EMS crisis in Montana.

The MTAA plans to be at the next meeting on November 5th in Helena.

We feel that many of the staffing issues around the state could be largely addressed by proper reimbursement (funding) for ambulance service and EMS response. Most of our payors ranging from Medicaid to Medicare to commercial insurance are paying woefully below cost. This poor reimbursement for services makes it tough to be competitive with salaries and wages; not to mention paying for expensive medical equipment and ambulances.

We will be encouraging the Interim Committee to look at ways to generate fair reimbursement for ambulance services, including Montana Medicaid and commercial insurance payors. We will also be encouraging the Committee to look at a reimbursement structure for 'Treatment In Place' (TIP). Ambulance services currently receive no payment unless they execute an actual transport. TIP can save the healthcare system money, and is a service provided by ambulance services that has value.

We are optimistic about the future of EMS in Montana!

MEMSA, Montana Emergency Medical Services Association
Tim Montana
American Ambulance Association

11/02/2025

The Novi Police Department says a man carjacked a Medstar ambulance with a paramedic and patient inside, crashed into another vehicle, then fled on foot and tried to disarm responding officers. The paramedic and patient were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.

More details: https://trib.al/n3TwVuE