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The News 5 Investigators have discovered you are waiting longer and longer in local emergency rooms. And it gets even worse for those suffering from mental health issues.
U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Peter Welch (D-VT) have introduced a bipartisan Comprehensive Alternative Response to Emergencies (CARE) Act. This bill would require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to test a five-year “treatment-in-place” model in which Medicare reimburses emergency medical service (EMS) providers when they treat a patient outside of the hospital,