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My wife fainted at a Shake Shack in NYC on the UWS. The 5 hour hospital stay with medicine, a regular check in from a nurse, and fluids cost less than $500. The
by jermaustin1 8y ago
My wife fainted at a Shake Shack in NYC on the UWS. The 5 hour hospital stay with medicine, a regular check in from a nurse, and fluids cost less than $500. The < 5 MINUTE ambulance ride cost over $2500 to go from W77 to E77 (straight across the park, about a mile).
The ambulance game is the real racket.
- FireBeyond 8y agoIn Washington state that trip would have cost about $700 (I used to work in private EMS, now in Fire). In Washington, the ambulance companies are separate. In NY state, and particularly in the City, most ambulance companies are owned by the hospitals themselves. It's cost shifting.
- hourislate 8y agoShould have taken Uber/Lyft. A lot of folks are now using them to go to Emergency. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/taking-uber-lyft-emergency-room-legal-liabilities https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolineodonovan/taking...
- sneakernets 8y agoDid you even read what you linked? This is terrible!
- pascalxus 8y agoWell, you need to just appear to not be sick and they'll accept you as a ride: don't barf allover the place as you get in, wait until the trip has started. After that, they have every incentive to deliver you to the hospital. Sure, ideally we'd have reasonable ambulance pricing, but since that's not going to happen, taxis and ubers/lyft are the best thing.
- pascalxus 8y agoYup, they're real basterd. I'd give them a middle finger every time I see one, but it's not the driver/nurses who deserves the blame. This is where regulation can play a good role. We really need to stop these predatory Hospitals.