so umm yeah...

DeV wrote:

VIXXX, I have a complaint for all ambulance services!!!!!!

Did we cut your favorite piece of clothing off?

No, i think you over-charged me....654 freakin dollars to go 7 miles -_-...lower your prices please!!!

That's cheap! Your lucky! The average ambulance trip is about a grand.

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What did they do to you? I mean procedures and boarding and crap... and I'll tell you if you where overcharged.

procedure wise, they put me on the gurney, put those sticky circle things on my shoulders and on the sides of my stomach, put the bp sensor on my arm, put something on my index finger, still didnt know what that was for...they sat me up in the gurney and the paramedic and i had a conversation lol, thats about all i remember

procedure wise, they put me on the gurney,
put those sticky circle
things on my shoulders and on the sides of my stomach,

ECG Monitoring - Looking to make sure your heart is running right...

put the bp sensor
on my arm,

Blood Pressure - checking to see that, that is all honky doory..

put something on my index finger, still didnt know what that
was for...

A PulseOX - Measures the oxygen in your blood stream and sometimes the Co2 too

they sat me up in the gurney and the paramedic and i had a
conversation lol, thats about all i remember

WHAT!!! No board??!! Did you refuse to be boarded? with that MOI even with the only complaint of the eye lac, you should have had c-spine precautions just in case.

Anyways, where at about 500 or 600 right here.. + mileage

DAMMIT!!!! lol, but yes i refused to be boarded because i really didn't need it, I wasn't feeling pain anywhere. But over all it was like 500 something just for the ambulance, and the ride was like 7 miles and they charged me for all the disposable stuff -_-..you and the hospitals need to lower your prices...1600 dollars to get glass flushed out of my eyes...coulda just used salt and water

DeV wrote:

DAMMIT!!!! lol, but yes i refused to be boarded because i really didn't need it, I wasn't feeling pain anywhere. But over all it was like 500 something just for the ambulance, and the ride was like 7 miles and they charged me for all the disposable stuff -_-..you and the hospitals need to lower your prices...1600 dollars to get glass flushed out of my eyes...coulda just used salt and water

Damn I would have just said don't bother billing me.

LOL if you had been boarded... would have been another 1-200$'s

Also, look at it this way, well up here anyways, the service I work for is a 501c non profit. So we don't receive state money. So to finance out operation, we relied on the donations and money received from the billing... this is like this for most ambulance services.

well fortunately for me, tricare (army's health care) took care of the hospital bill, but im stuck with the ambulance bill until the investigation is over

Vixen wrote:

LOL if you had been boarded... would have been another 1-200$'s

Also, look at it this way, well up here anyways, the service I work for is a 501c non profit. So we don't receive state money. So to finance out operation, we relied on the donations and money received from the billing... this is like this for most ambulance services.

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I'm glad i refused to get boarded than haha, thank god for no serious injuries :P, but thats true, but still taxi's don't charge that much and they still do very well :P