Ambalamps charges

[GreyGhost]

IIRC, in the past, if you were in your county/region, ambulance was free, if you were outside of where your address was, you were on the hook for $75. Things are a little different now. Apparently, every ambulance ride costs $240 and ohip picks up $195 if they deem your trip medically necessary. You pay $45. Small price to pay if you need it but I don't know when that changed. I don't know if attendance by fire has changed too.

 

[Gary]

In Hamilton 20 yrs ago, it cost $45 for my Dad.
I took it a couple times around 2018....each ride cost me $45.
Best way to beat the ER line-up.

 

[SVeezy]

In the not so distant past both daughters took an ambulance ride, we got a bill for both even though they were in the same ambulance. They are also legally adults so we should have never seen a bill on their behalf.


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[GreyGhost]

In Hamilton 20 yrs ago, it cost $45 for my Dad.
I took it a couple times around 2018....each ride cost me $45.
Best way to beat the ER line-up.

Yup. Theoretically, you get in the same triage line but the paramedics are your advocates. You avoid needing to talk to three different people before you get to a waiting room and in my case, they got me into an alternative stream so I was seen and out far faster.

I thought I paid $75 for a ride in Tarana more than 10 years ago, but I could be wrong.

 

[backmarkerducati]

Every time I have taken an emergency ride in an ambulance I had to pay...back to the late 80s, all local to where I lived. From memory it was $45 or maybe $54, according to the bill it was just part maybe half of the total price.

Some were self inflicted misadventures others were not, always got a bill.

 

[jc100]

Do you need to tip for good service?

I see an opportunity for Uber here…..

 

[GreyGhost]

Do you need to tip for good service?

I see an opportunity for Uber here…..

I would have tipped them. In the chaos my wallet didn't make it. They were awesome. Friendly, competent and got me some drugs on board (not nearly enough but gave what they could). They were two smallish girls and I almost got dumped while strapped to the stretcher but they caught it before it went over so no hard feelings.

On a related note, how many people know their health card number? Paramedic said I was the first one she has had that knew it? wtf?

 

[backmarkerducati]

I once got the same crew from some previous misadventures....

This time I had a collapsed lung and almost the entire lung cavity was filled with fluid/blood (I had been trying to walk it off for a while)--pretty serious and stupid. They were, you again...they did not take it seriously, pretty much just a cab ride on a gurney being ignored.... spent the next week in the ICU, arrived in shock and barely alive--then I had to pay for the ride.

 

[GreyGhost]

I once got the same crew from some previous misadventures....

This time I had a collapsed lung and almost the entire lung cavity was filled with fluid/blood (I had been trying to walk it off for a while)--pretty serious and stupid. They were, you again...they did not take it seriously, pretty much just a cab ride on a gurney being ignored.... spent the next week in the ICU, arrived in shock and barely alive--then I had to pay for the ride.

That's no good. The paramedics catching charges for letting that kid die in hamilton because they didn't properly evaluate him hopefully helps to clean up some of that crap.

Thankfully, I wasn't going to die, I just needed to be put back together. They were pretty on-the-ball, I think it would been ok even if I was in more trouble. Both of them were in the back for 10 minutes or so doing history/screening/evaluation/monitors before the drive started.

 

[regder]

Is this new? Last ambulance ride for me was somewhere around five years ago, don't recall having to pay anything. Then again, I was pretty sure I was having a heart attack (I was not)

 

[GreyGhost]

Is this new? Last ambulance ride for me was somewhere around five years ago, don't recall having to pay anything. Then again, I was pretty sure I was having a heart attack (I was not)

I can't tell you for sure. I think it was different than I was charged last time, but others remember the same charge for decades. Maybe each municipality picks the rate? I try to use them often enough to be able to comprehensively plot the rate.

 

[TwistedKestrel]

Never actually ridden in one but I know my benefits from work would cover the fee

 

[GreyGhost]

Never actually ridden in one but I know my benefits from work would cover the fee

I assume my wifes benefits will pick it up. Once there are a stack of bills, I will submit them.

 

[matthew]

I'd gladly pay $50 for an ambulance ride. I've read wayyyyy toooo many horror stories from the US about people being charged $50,000 for stitches and aspirin after a hospital visit.

 

[Relax]

I've always been billed for ambulance since my first ride around 1990, regardless if I was at home in Mississauga, or driving in Toronto, or at Shannonville. My employer benefits covered it, though.

 

[SVeezy]

I would have tipped them. In the chaos my wallet didn't make it. They were awesome. Friendly, competent and got me some drugs on board (not nearly enough but gave what they could). They were two smallish girls and I almost got dumped while strapped to the stretcher but they caught it before it went over so no hard feelings.

On a related note, how many people know their health card number? Paramedic said I was the first one she has had that knew it? wtf?

I didn’t have a health card for 15yrs or more. Then I went to the doctor and for some reason still remembered it


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[crankcall]

Too many have figured out the ambulance helps you get faster service, since that ambulance and two paramedics are out of service until the patient is transferred to hospital care.
It’s really self serving if you don’t ‘need’ the ambulance. The token fee is peanuts compared to what that service costs . They show up at Oakville because grandma is having trouble breathing and her kids are too hammered to drive . Seriously .


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[Brian P]

My recent situation that led to an ambulance ride cost me $45, which I happily paid.

 

[TwistedKestrel]

Too many have figured out the ambulance helps you get faster service, since that ambulance and two paramedics are out of service until the patient is transferred to hospital care.
It’s really self serving if you don’t ‘need’ the ambulance. The token fee is peanuts compared to what that service costs . They show up at Oakville because grandma is having trouble breathing and her kids are too hammered to drive . Seriously .


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Trouble breathing is something I would consider calling the ambulance for. If that converts to "no breathing" en route they can do something about it