Calico
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Glad to hear. You’re a good neighbor to have.
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Glad to hear. You’re a good neighbor to have.
Glad to hear. You’re a good neighbor to have.
Glad to hear it sounds like she's going to be ok. I have lots of could've, would've, should've thoughts in my head, but respectfully will not air them here, as that's water under the bridge.
Bless you for caring for her animals so she had no worries about them while in the hospital. Hope she continues to improve daily.
I thought keto acidosis caused super low blood sugar leading to coma or even death if someone does eat some emergency food to raise their blood sugar quick. This is usually a result of taking too high of a dose of insulin or other blood sugar lowering drug - not balanced with food intake.
In most cases, ketoacidosis in people with diabetes will be accompanied by high sugar levels. However, ketoacidosis can also occur at low or normal blood glucose levels. This is referred to as euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis and may occur if someone who is insulin dependent neither eats nor takes sufficient insulin for a prolonged period of time.
I wonder if that was the real reason. For hospital air ambulances I have read that they must be paid by the hospital if they deliver to a hospital that is not theirs, but if they deliver to their own hospital then they only get paid if the patient pays.One advantage of calling an ambulance is they know which hospital is really tied up. They told me they were taking me to one 1-2 miles farther because I'd get seen sooner and they felt it was needed as I was not in my best shape. ...
I wonder if that was the real reason. For hospital air ambulances I have read that they must be paid by the hospital if they deliver to a hospital that is not theirs, but if they deliver to their own hospital then they only get paid if the patient pays.
I was in a serious golf cart accident and the paramedic told me that we only have one Trauma Level 2 hospital in the area which was about 35 minutes from where we were. That's definitely the advantage to having an ambulance take the patient to the hospital as they know which is the correct hospital to treat a particular type of emergency situation. I had 5 broken ribs, broken in multiple segments, deep and large liver larceration and a perforated lung.
I had no idea those carts could be so dangerous!
I had no idea those carts could be so dangerous!
Glad to hear. You’re a good neighbor to have.
Good luck with that.So yeah, maybe she should have seen her doctor sooner.
Medicare may cover ambulance, but it depends on the situation. https://www.medicare.gov/Pubs/pdf/11021-Medicare-Coverage-of-Ambulance-Services.pdf
If the person could have gone to get care without the ambulance it most likely will not be covered.
My mum had a year long dispute with the fire dept billing for ambulance paramedics services before the paramedics and her insurance reached an agreement. They billed more than $1k, she is not mobile and there was no doubt they overbilled. In this case both the insurer and the emergency services acted badly.
Ambulance is still a hole in insurance coverage
I thought keto acidosis caused super low blood sugar leading to coma or even death if someone does eat some emergency food to raise their blood sugar quick. This is usually a result of taking too high of a dose of insulin or other blood sugar lowering drug - not balanced with food intake.
Regardless, obviously Covid can be way more serious for someone with diabetes.
Medicare may cover ambulance, but it depends on the situation. https://www.medicare.gov/Pubs/pdf/11021-Medicare-Coverage-of-Ambulance-Services.pdf...
...Medicare will generally pay to transport you by ambulance. But if you’re dealing with an injured arm or leg that may be broken, that’s not reason enough to warrant an ambulance.
If the person could have gone to get care without the ambulance it most likely will not be covered.
Yeah, wait until you take an "air" ambulance! It's a whole other level of cost.
I often wondered how much "we" as tax payers had to pay for those rides.
DW took me to hosp. for chest pains (tuned out to be Coronary Artery Disease needing stents.) We had seen the local ambulance struggling to get through traffic just to pick someone up. We thought it quicker to get to hosp by car. It's true that the ambulance would have been better IF I had coded or had an actual MI. BUT we didn't know what we were dealing with. At the ER, though they started "w*rking" on me right away, they didn't administer any drugs or do much more than ask me questions and hook me up to monitors. It was 3 days later I got my stents, so a very "lazy" process IMHO.
Would ambulance be preferred in such a situation? I guess it's luck of the draw. With DW driving me to ER, I know we got there quicker than by ambulance. Could I have been helped in our car if things had worsened? Of course not. Would I do it differently next time (hoping there IS no next time?) Probably. YMMV
My 15 minute ride with the only thing done was 1 dose of meds given to knock me out, was $54406. The reason they knocked me out... because I was being combative and telling them I didn't need the Bird and could go by ground.
Your actually paying on multiple levels. If you have a municipal based service, your local taxes subsidizes that, state and federal taxes towards Medicare/Medicaid. Add money you pay in insurance.
Then on top of that.... they will send you a bill....