I just got a bill in the mail from Burnsville EMS (the ambulance service that picked me up after I rolled the Explorer). They couldn’t find my no-fault auto insurance information, so I can either send that or cough up the dough. It would be a big cough.
The ambulance showed up with its lights flashing. I climbed into the back on my own, they put on a foam neck brace and strapped me down to a gurney for the ride, then drove about a mile to get to the hospital. Grand total? $1083.50
And you wonder why people bitch about the cost of health care in this country…
…and at those people who use the ambulance as taxi service … yes, some people will have their insurance cover the ambulance for a doc appt so they don’t have to pay for bus fare
That’s about 1/3 of what it cost for the ambulance when I crashed my bicycle in 2001. ( I had a serious concussion and needed the backboard/neck brace stuff too, though I have no idea if I got on myself or if they moved me. No memories, thanks to the concussion.) Thankfully, insurance covered that cost. It surprises me that the cost would have gone down, though. I wonder if it’s city vs. suburb, or something else that made the difference.