Massachusetts Town Relies on Neighbors’ Ambulances

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Billerica’s most reliable ambulance is also its oldest.

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[Arctickat]

Perhaps they should consider keeping one of those old ambulances in mothballs at the back of the shop for a mechanical spare.

[Chief1C]

Holy Shit! $225,000.00 for an ambulance? We spec'd out a top of the line, custom job, full of modern, safe, bells and whistles and all that, and it was about $80,000.00 less. I thought they were one of these places using like 20, 30 year old ambos. Hell, I looked it up, and it only shows the years of two of them. But it's '05 and '09. No sympathy. I know places that have ambulances from the 80's still.

...for $225,000.00.. They could have replaced two of them.

That right there is poor planning.

Rant on. We have no idea what will become of EMS billing in the next few years. If this plan to base Medicare payments on patient outcome goes through, we could all be screwed. We can't fix their life of bad living in the back of a goddamn ambulance. Rant off.