The World's Most Expensive Ride, Courtesy AMR

American Medical Response sent me an $1,813.44 bill after giving me a 450 foot ride in an ambulance. Next time, I'll call a cab.

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[cdffirefighter]

aviation fuel costs, wear and tear. then the trauma center, equipment used meds,trauma room and the staff,x-ray,C.T. scans being admitted to I.C.U. use of critical care nurses "equipment ie ventillator, cardiac monitaring use of the icu bed,meds, and not to mention a portion of all this money will be used to further educate current ems and personal staff and educate new ems personal and hospital staff ,and also the slack for non paying or uninsured patients, in life almost nothing is free.

[KevyNova]

@cdffirefighter Thanks for the long reply, it's more than I have gotten from AMR so far. I don't expect to get anything for free but I still think $1,800 for a 400 ft. car ride is a bit extreme, especially considering that I would have gotten the same service from a cab. Keep in mind, that is JUST for the ambulance company, the ER, x-ray lab, and meds were all billed separately.

By the way, I have a good friend who is also a firefighter/paramedic and I really respect what you do.

[cdffirefighter]

look at it this way.......when divided up you're paying for the cost of all of the equipment used by the ground ambulance, A.L.S. fee use of the medications,payroll for the crew insurance of the company and of the paramedic fuel costs wear and tear on the ambulance, then a fee for the use of a medical facility their treatment,supplies,meds and e.r. staff. then for the medivac, use of their services, flight time equipment meds, flight nurses and crew, faa, registration fees, insurance maintance..

[cdffirefighter]

by a medivac or a helicopter and say it's 25 to 30 miles to a trauma center the medivac will be about 15,000$ once you get to the trauma center they asses your injuries and treat you accordingly and move you to an intensive care unit floor of the trauma center and you stay two weeks lets say your looking about 25 to 30,000$ just for the I.C.U. stay , the trauma center er assesment will be about 3,000$ so in general an accident like this will run about 80 to 100,000$. But you have to look at it

[cdffirefighter]

or motor vehicle crash, you roll your car numerous times and are ejected out of the vehicle unconsious with head injuries along with other injuries,the equipment we will use on you,medications we will administer to you will be costly along with the transport say 5 miles to a hospitial will run about 5,000$ say you get to the hospital and it's determend you need to be transported to a trauma facility, the first hospital will charge about 10 to 12,000 for their care usually you will be transfered

[cdffirefighter]

well working as a firefighter/paramedic i also work for a privateized ambulance company, and the private sector makes up over 90 percent of the ambulance transport service in the u.s. there are also ambulances who are county and city owned and they also charge a fee,most runs are basic "non advanced life support" granted a basic transport will run about 900 to 1,000 now A.L.S. could cost up to 10,000 or more depending what your medical condition is for ex: say your involved in a M.V.A.......>