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the Cost of Ambulance Rides

Price 
Location 
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Description
$ 669
Sep 2007
Jackson, MI
Non emergency ambulance ride  more... close row
$ 1160
Nov 2006
Santa Ana, CA
Fainted from dehydration
8 mile ambulance ride when out of town  more... close row
$ 500
May 2008
Baltimore, MD
I had a severe Asthma Attack and could not breathe.
Life is priceless even if ambulance is pricey  more... close row
$ 1450
Nov 2007
Reading, PA
Automobile Accident
Ambulance after a car accident  more... close row
$ 2500
May 2006
Tempe, AZ
car accident
Ambulance ride very costly  more... close row
$ 1124
Jun 2007
Durango, CO
broken foot
Accident at a Colorado resort  more... close row
$ 0
Mar 2008
Ashland, KY
Car Accident
Ambulance ride from the scene of a car accident  more... close row
$ 174
Mar 2007
Arlington, TX
Broken collarbone
Ambulance got shoulder injury taken care of quickly  more... close row
$ 4000
Apr 2008
Los Angeles, CA
Heart Attack in home
Ambulance service excellent but too expensive  more... close row

Description of service

I recently underwent a heart attack when I was in my home and I called 911. An ambulance from the closest hospital to me arrived and took me to the hospital. I paid 4,000 dollars total and for this price I was treated and kept alive while in the ambulance, given basic care, transported to the hospital, and taken to the emergency room. There were about five paramedics who treated me and loaded me into the ambulance and there were probably about seven men who unloaded me at the hospital. In the ambulance I did receive some treatment which I then did not have to receive in my hospital stay.


Review of Service

Overall I have a mixed review on the service. The price seemed outrageously high (however, almost all ambulance services cost that much), except the ambulance probably did save my life. I think the price does not at all reflect the costs for the hospital, in other words, I do believe that the hospital greatly profited from the service. I also think that the care was decent in the ambulance and it probably kept me alive before I made it to the hospital for more in-depth treatment. I think that the service is done smoothly and properly buy the price is simply too high.


Tips

I only have one tip and that is that I advise anyone experiencing a medical emergency to be very cautious in having an ambulance be sent. They are very very expensive and often times the patient does not actually need the care that the ambulance provides.


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$ 250
May 2008
Flint MI
Stomach pain
Ambulance is an expensive way to get to the hospital  more... close row
$ 693
Sep 2007
Nashville, Tennessee
preterm labor pains
Ambulance rides get more expensive by the mile  more... close row