My Dad was choppered twice. Blue cross blue shield. Cost him $200.
friends were caught with a multi thousand bill a couple of years ago.
The Blues wouldn't pay a third of the cost when the Dallas fire department paramedics checked me out one time. And the city didn't even send me a balance bill - they sent it straight to an out of state collection agency.
And I wasn't even the one who called them - some stranger did that while I was unconscious. No telling what the cost would have been if I had let them take me to the hospital.