During a review of financial documents at a board meeting this week, AMED Executive Director Gary Watters reiterated his dissatisfaction with a 2015 state law whose initial impetus was to help ambulance services being stiffed by patients who refused to forward direct payments they received from their insurance companies for transports. Although only about 3 percent of AMED’s patients receive direct payments from insurance companies and only 20 percent of those refuse to forward the payments to AMED, such failures nevertheless deprived AMED of at least $160,000 in revenue last year, ...