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Originally Posted by Argie's Wife
It may be too late now to dispute this, but you can appeal decisions with Medicare and there's a process for that... If you ever find yourself in this position again, contact the hospital's Care Management Department, or ask to speak with a Social Worker about the bill. Either can direct you through the process - some hospitals have someone on staff who assists with appeals, but all will be able to give you information on how to appeal decisions yourself. This is your right (not to say your appeal will be in your favor - but you can try it.)
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...We did the appeal thing to no avail. It was not the Hospital...just the ambulance company. they were not very sympathetic at all.
We would have taken him ourselves, but he had Alzheimer's and could be difficult to deal with when taken from his familiar settings. For a couple of hundred bucks, we thought the ambulance could be a good thing. Trying to get him up into a Blazer or Trailblazer was going to be difficult. If we had to have done it a second time... yup, would have done it ourselves.
