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Old 02-20-2022, 08:06 AM
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Should be covered!!!

I was the Fire Chief in a different state and we had our own transporting ambulances.(around 12,000 EMS calls a year)

This is a paperwork/billing issue that was not done right by the ambulance service. If they did not tell you that you can take yourself and don’t medically need to go by ambulance, then it’s their responsibility to check the right boxes that were sent to your insurance/Medicare.

Note in my opinion having a fall that hit your head and can’t get up is medically needed and should be covered.

You should call the ambulance service and have them correct it and resubmit the claim.

This is one reason our community wanted to keep the ambulance service under the fire department and not to a private service.

FYI replying on my phone, so please excuse any misspellings or bad grammar

Last edited by fireman; 02-20-2022 at 08:24 AM.