"[T]he new air ambulance law is like laws in California and other states that protect consumers from surprise medical bills: They don't apply to residents in federally regulated [self-funded] health plans. Those plans cover about two-thirds of people who get insurance through their jobs nationwide.... [W]hen other states have tried to prohibit air ambulance balance billing, the companies have often successfully challenged those laws on the grounds that the federal Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 prohibits state rate setting[.]"  MORE >>