tvguy
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- Dec 15, 2003
Yeah, in the final year of my mom's life she needed ambulance transportation 4 times. The local fire department ambulance sent a bill for $250 for each of the two transports they did. The private ambulance company accepted the Medicare payment as FULL payment for the two transports they did. I was managing my mom's finances at the time and just paid it. But I know my mom would have given the fire department she had been paying taxes to for 63 years an ear full because they had the gall to bill her for an ambulance, especially when the FOR PROFIT PRIVATE ambulance company felt the insurance payment was acceptable.Ambulance bill. I was in my early 20s, so just out of school.
Ran into that when my MIL's husband needed an ambulance....another public fire department billed my MIL $1,500. Her husband was retired Air Force and covered by Air Force Tricare coverage. The Fire District included an Air Force base. The ambulance had been purchased with a federal grant with the stipulation that any person covered by federal health insurance not be billed a penny, that what the insurance paid would be payment in full. Just by the fact it was Tricare should have told them they couldn't bill her.