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Originally Posted by King Mark
So... you have an ambulance that takes you to urgent care? Then takes you back home after? And your urgent care treats gunshot victims?
That's wild. Where you live? What that bill look like?
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There are several ambulance services around here. If you have to go to the ER in one city or Urgent Care in another, you call and explanation the medical situation. They then send the closest ambulance, I assume, to take you. They require a full history of the issue and meanwhile, another guy straps you in.
The ambulance service is out of Fall River as that’s the city next door. I can go to either of two hospitals there or another I chose as it’s more familiar to me.
The cost is paid for by my health insurance provider. I’ve got good coverage but I believe that a sprain or splinter is not considered an emergency. They did another CT scan and ultrasound and I said to check the films from last week to save money. They wouldn’t and I told them that’s why rates are so high. They are in business to make money.
They have walk-in clinics around here but due to past experience I refuse to consider it.
Urgent Care is another name for the ER. They treat all from splinters to gunshot wounds. You try to never go on the weekend because of drunk accidents and such. I had no choice.
If you’re not ambulatory, you don’t have much choice. I’m told I paid $1,600 to transport me via ambulance from a rehab hospital to the nursing home (10 miles or so) twelve years ago. It’s the liability of transporting a very sick person I guess. I had no health insurance at the time.
You live and learn.