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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 2806877, member: 44"] The story from the article. [I]There were close to 3,000 air ambulance flights in Montana in 2014, and Amy Thomson was on one of them, curled up among the medical bags in the back of the fixed-wing plane. Her 2-month-old daughter, Isla, had a failing heart, and the hospital that could help her was 600 miles away.[/I] That seems a reasonable use to me. Though the family was initially billed $56,000... [I]Thomson ended up not having to pay for her flight, but only after repeated appeals. According to Thomson, on the same day they were arranging a time to meet with a lawyer, she was notified by her insurance company that it would pay an additional amount of about $30,000, as well as the $13,000 out-of-network fee to the air ambulance company. The air ambulance firm waived the rest of its fee. [/I] I know here in NJ it is tough to get Medevac'd. I once was coaching a soccer game where the opposing goalie dove for a loose ball just as one of our guys kicked it. The foot the ball and goalie's head all came together for horrific impact. The goalie started with numbness in his feet which became loss of motion and which then spread up his legs to his torso and arms. Finally he couldn't move at all. For a lot reasons the first responders took forever to get there, or at least what felt like forever, it probably was 25 minutes, give or take. I asked for Medevac but it can only be requested by a first responder (EMT or police). I thought I was watching this poor kid die. We kept him talking and he was pretty cool laughing and joking in an ever softening voice. Probably one of the scariest things I've been a part of. He ended up being transported by ambulance. He had fractured some vertebrae and his discs had swollen up pinching his spinal column, that was what caused the numbness and loss of motion. After a few days in the hospital the swelling faded and he was largely okay. He made a full recovery. So in the end, dispatch was right in not sending the helicopter, but may that was a terrifying 45 minutes to an hour. [/QUOTE]

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