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$4,803.25! Received this yesterday which also said THIS IS NOT A BILL. For what?

When jim had a stroke two Saturdays ago I called 911. For the AMBULANCE that arrived and the medical care he received there. It's a two-parter.

$3,730.50  Ambulance transportation to the nearest stroke center
$1,072.50  Ambulance transfer from the stroke center to the Kaiser Hospital that had a stroke center too.

Our share? ZERO. Medicare I guess paid it.

So when the sb prez and his trumpican toady sycophants gut social security, MEDICARE and medicaid what will that mean to folks like us who DEPEND ON MEDICARE to stay alive? Any ideas?

We're waiting for all the others bills that will follow. I expect some will show a co-pay which we will have to pay of course. It costs money to stay alive. If you don't have the money and the toady sycophant pols cut your lifeline well I guess that's just the name of the ballgame right? Three strikes and yer out! By the end of the sb prez chokehold on our country what will be left of social welfare nets for those who are not obscenely wealthy?

Posted - May 12, 2019
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  • 34959
    Regular Medicare part B pays for ambulance services. It only pays 80%. 
    The rest is either paid private pay or co-insurance, Medicaid or whatever you have. There are so many types of Medicare Advantage policies available. 
     
    But if you only have reg Medicare you should be expecting another a bill for the other 20%. Sounds like what you got is the Medicare insurance paper showing you what was paid. 
      May 12, 2019 10:02 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    Jim had the stroke two weeks ago yesterday. I wondered when the bills would start showing up. I know there will be some from the first hospital Stroke Center at Loma Linda in Murrieta and then some from Kaiser which is our secondary insurance where Jim was transferred. Have no idea what it will end up costing but Jim is alive and fine so whatever it is will be okay. Thank you for your reply m2c. It's better to never get sick. I wonder if anyone ever lived that kind of life?
      May 12, 2019 10:11 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    Sometimes the hospital or medical provider will accept what Medicare or Medicaid pays as full payment without you having to pay the additional 20% or they may waive part of that 20%.  If you have supplemental insurance coverage (to cover that which Medicare or Medicaid doesn't pay), your portion will depend on what the terms of that co-insurance says is your share.
      May 12, 2019 7:04 PM MDT
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