How much is high-quality service worth? An ambulance bill of $3,419.60 for a ride of 1.8 miles is going viral online.
The post under “Midly Iinfuriating,” written by an anonymous user who went by u/Aggressive-Green4592, has 68.8 thousand upvotes as of Wednesday afternoon.
The poster said her bill was for her father who had VA benefits and was being transferred from a VA facility to the hospital for heart failure. The father has since died, the poster wrote, but it’s not clear when.
The poster said the bill won’t be paid.
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Commentors appeared sympathetic.
“Motorcycle accident outside of a hospital when I was younger,” one person wrote. “Ambulance was already driving towards me. $1,800 for 800 ft.”
“One time our insurance refused to cover my mother’s ambulance ride because the ambulance provider was ‘out of network.’ Like we have a choice as to what ambulance shows up. The US is crazy,” another wrote.
“An Uber at surge price would have been less expensive,” said another.
