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jrhoffa t1_iti1whq wrote

Reply to comment by fbtcu1998 in Man fatally shot after California high school football game by unknown_name

Last ambulance bills I saw in CA were around $2k a pop.

Are you using the mean or median average? Source?

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fbtcu1998 t1_iti2mm3 wrote

https://www.the-caa.org/assets/docs/Calif-EMS-Safety-Net.pdf

and

https://www.talktomira.com/post/how-much-does-an-er-visit-cost

Like I said the ambulance part could easily be more considering his injuries, but I can't see how it would be the most expensive part of the entire thing.

Edit: Oh that is just the private ones, 911 probably would go thru a municipality which could be more than the average, but I still don't think it would 10k plus like the ER visit could.

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jrhoffa t1_iti6h3o wrote

Still curious what the median costs are, since the mean is early skewed by large outliers.

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fbtcu1998 t1_iti8mv8 wrote

I won't pretend to be able to unravel all the layers of that stinky onion. There are costs, reimbursements, different costs based on insurance or not, private vs public, subsidized vs not, etc. A man's gotta know his limits, and untangling medical costs is where I tap out.

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jrhoffa t1_iti9457 wrote

Yeah, it's a quagmire on purpose. This is a conversation that should never have come to pass.

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