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12-01-2016 06:42 PM
You'd be utterly amazed how many people drive themselves to the hospital when they are having a heart attack! Also the ones who come in and say "I have been having chest pain and shortness of breath for 2 weeks".
12-02-2016 11:04 AM
I'm in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.
12-02-2016 11:20 AM
I'm so sorry you had to go through all that pain but I am very glad to hear you are mending now.
I've only had to use the ambulance once in my life (but it was because of a car accident so I didn't have to pay the bill, the dude who hit me did).
However, after that accident, I went to my benefits folks at work and asked about specifics like ambulance rides just for future reference. And with my policy, if I/my kids are admitted for at least 24 hours, then the cost of the ambulance would be covered in full.
If not admitted, then I have a $300 cost for the use of it and I can use my HSA to cover it.
I'm thankful for that since my sons don't drive yet if I am the one who needs the service.
12-02-2016 11:38 AM
If it is an emergency, why on earth would anyone NOT use an ambulance? No matter what the cost is - an emergency is just that, an EMERGENCY!! If is not one than by all means just drive yourself or find someone that will. I would never even think of the cost, I would be thinking - OMG someone else or I need help NOW!! There are just some things that the cost should not even be considered - like a life - being the first thing that comes to my mind!!
12-03-2016 05:07 AM
Our city in Southern California offers for $60 a year a paramedic/ambulance membership that would pay all costs relating to an ambulance/paramedics coming to my house.
12-03-2016 05:21 AM
@CAMOGIRL wrote:If it is an emergency, why on earth would anyone NOT use an ambulance? No matter what the cost is - an emergency is just that, an EMERGENCY!! If is not one than by all means just drive yourself or find someone that will. I would never even think of the cost, I would be thinking - OMG someone else or I need help NOW!! There are just some things that the cost should not even be considered - like a life - being the first thing that comes to my mind!!
@CAMOGIRL I think people are embarrassed by all the fuss; sirens, lights, people. Our fire department always sends a fire truck and a paramedic unit.... Why, I don't know. When my friend fell and we just needed help getting her up, I specifically asked for no sirens, assuring them that she wasn't injured.
12-03-2016 02:58 PM
Medicare B covers it, so F people, use it freely. I had a friend who had her Dad fall on the way to her car to go to the ER, so she still had to call 911.
12-04-2016 12:47 PM
Last time I went to the ER (not too long ago) there was a parade in town, so they went out of network to send the ambulance. When I received the bill I almost fainted . . . it was over $700!!
They sent a form I had to fill out so that Medicare would pay. I filled it out and sent it. They sent another one. I filled it out again and sent it. Then they sent a third one . . . I filled it out, called them, and wrote a note on the form that it was my third response!!
Finally, I received a bill from them for the Medicare co-pay of $30+ dollars. What a rigamarole!!
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