Air ambulance, and the bill afterwards

It may be different on the pilot side. Admittedly I'm not sure about that. At least what I'm told on the med crew side is that they make less than AMC crews,and they may be losing their 48 hour shifts. I think it was 5 bases but they were almost all in NM


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scoobs said:
I thought the ambulance cost was part of the deductible?

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Depends. At least on the ground ambulance side,a lot of stuff gets kicked back by insurance for being deemed not medically "necessary" transports. I'd imagine the same goes for HEMS


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scoobs said:
I thought the ambulance cost was part of the deductible?

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Ya if you have insurance you should only be out your deductible.

My old shop sold medevac insurance for $100 a year or so and that covered 100% of your ride.
 
z987k said:
Ya if you have insurance you should only be out your deductible.

My old shop sold medevac insurance for $100 a year or so and that covered 100% of your ride.
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Two things:
1) Some states view the memberships as insurance. If the company is not a licensed insurance company, they're not allowed to sell them in that state.
2) If you're on vacation and have an accident, that membership with AMGH won't help if you get picked up by AMC. There's one "universal" policy from AOPA, but they essentially determine medical necessity.
 
NovemberEcho said:
So I'm guessing you're on board for a user fee-only funded ATC system?
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Show me a single person who does not at least indirectly benefit from air transportation and government ATC — from personal travel to getting a delivery from Amazon to national defense — and I'll agree with your premise.
 
RDoug said:
Show me a single person who does not at least indirectly benefit from air transportation and government ATC — from personal travel to getting a delivery from Amazon to national defense — and I'll agree with your premise.
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Ted Kazinski.(or however you spell his last name)
 
Apparently AMC sent out an internal memo regarding this news story as an attempt to do damage control and pat themselves on the back at the same time


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Seggy said:
You miss the point that if something goes wrong with the pregnancy it can become a lot more than an $8000.00 bill.

Insurance paying helps assure medical care is sought to prevent problem down the road.
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My car insurance company will pay a claim if I have an accident. They won't pay for an oil change.
 
My base alone costs $900,000+ a year to staff. This is before any overhead.
My airplane cost $1,000 Dollars an hour to operate.

Yet you want PB&M about a $35,000 bill because your insurance is cheap along with the rest of the US's insurance?

I'm no company homer, but this story is a lot of misdirected anger at the wrong people.
 
azmedic said:
Apparently AMC sent out an internal memo regarding this news story as an attempt to do damage control and pat themselves on the back at the same time


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jhugz said:
My base alone costs $900,000+ a year to staff. This is before any overhead.
My airplane cost $1,000 Dollars an hour to operate.

Yet you want PB&M about a $35,000 bill because your insurance is cheap along with the rest of the US's insurance?

I'm no company homer, but this story is a lot of misdirected anger at the wrong people.
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So you got the memo?

Until medcrews can say "this person doesn't need to fly" without repercussions or air ambo services start charging the referring EMS services or doctors for BS transfers, people will still get hosed to cover that nut.

It's like a shady plumber who tells grandma she needs an all new water heater when a 5 cent washed would fix it. He knows she really doesn't need it, but still sells it.
 
deadstick said:
So you got the memo?

Until medcrews can say "this person doesn't need to fly" without repercussions or air ambo services start charging the referring EMS services or doctors for BS transfers, people will still get hosed to cover that nut.

It's like a shady plumber who tells grandma she needs an all new water heater when a 5 cent washed would fix it. He knows she really doesn't need it, but still sells it.
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Got the memo. Pretty typical stuff from the HR department of a big corporation.

It's clear you have no idea how the system, billing, etc works so I'm just wasting breath. The problem isn't the operator. It's the whole damn system starting at the top.


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