Quote Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou
As for ambulance, if you do not have health coverage covered under your parents name, you will have to pay for it, and if you are in the US, I hear a ride just to your house for the ambulance, is not cheap, and last I hear it was $1000, just to your home.
Quote Originally Posted by geonagual
but yeah, those ambulance bills can get pretty costly...I had one once for over $ 500 and that was 15 years ago.
OK, either things are very different where y'all live, or--and this may well be the case--I've always lived and done paramedic work in very municipal-tax-wealthy communities. The only fees any of the fire departments or EMS companies charge here in urban-suburban Texas are when the medics administer actual monetarily measurable medical treatment, such as bandages, medications, oxygen or breathing treatments, and when they transport you in the ambulance. Once they treat you and roll with you, that's when the $500 and $1,000 bills start to come in. When they respond to a call, that's considerered their normal, routine community service day-to-day work, covered by your tax dollars. You can call your fire department and confirm that, Howto, and set your mind at ease on that count.

P.S. The sheriffs who showed up heard the story of what the circumstances were on the radio the medics use. That's why they showed up mysteriously. You can bet they all had a wonderful time laughing about that call.