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Jagdish Whitten was on a run in July 2023 when a car hit him as he crossed a busy San Francisco street. Whitten, then 25, described doing “a little flip” over the vehicle and landing in the street before getting himself to the curb.

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[–] glimse 1 points 4 hours ago

A long time ago when I worked in the event industry, my boss quit right before a big conference. I had to pick up 90% of his responsibilities which had me working 16-20 hour days. On the morning of the 4th day, I passed out from dehydration and woke up on a gurney. I stayed at the hospital for a few hours until I was clear to release.

A month later, I received a $3000 bill for the ambulance ride. My insurance wouldn't cover it because, since I didn't stay overnight, it obviously wasn't necessary. They told me I shouldn't have called the ambulance....but I didn't call, I was passed out on the ground.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

As he sat in a hospital bed, attached to an IV and wearing a neck brace, Whitten said, doctors told him that because he had suffered a traumatic injury, they had to send him by ambulance to the city’s only trauma center, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

After a short ambulance ride, Whitten said, emergency room doctors checked him out, told him he had already received appropriate treatment, and released him.

Then the bill came.

$12,872.99 for a 6-mile ambulance ride between hospitals: a $11,670.11 base rate, $737.16 for mileage, $314.45 for EKG monitoring, and $151.27 for “infection control.”