This story will give you a good reason to stay off haystacks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/business/rescued-by-an-air-ambulance-but-stunned-at-the-sky-high-bill.html?partner=MYWAY&ei=5065
Not quite the same. but on an allied subject, a less expensive way to travel for medical reasons. Go to search for local organizations affiliated with Angel Flight.
Angel Flight
About 15 years ago, we nearly had to use this service for an operation that health care plan required to be in Il, when we were in FL. At the time, a commercial air-ambulance flight was quoted at $28K... Worth a look, just in case.
Clarence W. Kendall, a rancher in Pearce, Ariz., was moving bales on top of a haystack when he fell eight feet and struck his head on the corner of a truck below. His health insurance covered most of the cost of treating the head trauma caused by the accident.
But there was one bill, for $47,182, that his insurance did not pay.
It came from the company that transported Mr. Kendall in a helicopter ambulance to a hospital in Tucson on the day of the fall, nearly two years ago. “That initial bill nearly gave me a heart attack,” he said. “I thought they’d have to come and get me again.” Mr. Kendall has not paid the charge, which he said was equivalent to a year’s income. As a result, Air Methods, the nation’s largest air ambulance operator, with over $1 billion in revenue last year, is suing him..
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/business/rescued-by-an-air-ambulance-but-stunned-at-the-sky-high-bill.html?partner=MYWAY&ei=5065
Not quite the same. but on an allied subject, a less expensive way to travel for medical reasons. Go to search for local organizations affiliated with Angel Flight.
Angel Flight
About 15 years ago, we nearly had to use this service for an operation that health care plan required to be in Il, when we were in FL. At the time, a commercial air-ambulance flight was quoted at $28K... Worth a look, just in case.
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