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I had this on the cards, but I finally got around to get ambulance cover!
With the wife pregnant, you never know when you might need one!

- Do you have ambulance cover?
- Have you been putting it off? If so, do it now!

How much does it cost?

I have it included in my Private health cover...... its mandatory to have AC for racing these days

mad not to have it,only about $28.00 per person or $60.00 a family per yr or a 2-3km trip could cost $800.00 if you havnt got it

Hi Tim, I paid $150 for 1 year. Includes all ambulance, including air ambulance, treatment en route to hospital, New natal emergencies and covers ambulance costs if an emergency cover should occur interstate.

Ofcourse this is Ambulance victoria prices. www.ambulance.vic.gov.au

I get free AC for myself and my family as part of my Union Membership with the TWU

Not to mention an air-lift.

I think it's free if from hospital to hospital but if you haven't been admitted to a hospital then costs a fortune.

yes.....always

it paid off the day my daughter broke her arm skiing at Mt Buller
they sent an ambo by road from Mansfield but due to its being a compound break of both bones
they called up the Air Ambulance from the Alfred .........I got a bill for over $15,000 for both
and sent it back with my membership number on it. I never heard about that again....

get an ambulance membership ..or else!

All Queensland's have free ambulance cover ..."but its not free",they just add more money on top of your electricity bill.

good way of doing it maybe,at least they dont need to employ 300 public servants to fill out paper work and piss you off.

robracer wrote:I have it included in my Private health cover......

same here.

This might be stating the obvious, but in Victoria at least the Ambo cover does not apply for accidents on the road. The Ambos will send you a bill that will need to get sent to the TAC.

alot of people have ambo cover in their health insurance & union cover...however check the small print...emergency only....I had a situation where I was rushed to one hospital, after spending 3 hrs there I was required to be transferred to another as they couldn't do what was needed at the first joint ...hospital to hospital " No Cover" lucky I always kept my ambo subscription current otherwise I was looking at $ 1800 out of pocket

matt6 wrote:This might be stating the obvious, but in Victoria at least the Ambo cover does not apply for accidents on the road. The Ambos will send you a bill that will need to get sent to the TAC.

they do...???

when i got tipped off a few years ago and carted off to Royal melbourne...I just told the Ambos, when we got to hospital, I was a paid up subscriber
never heard anymore about it (guess the TAC and the Ambulance service talked)

Smitty wrote:

matt6 wrote:This might be stating the obvious, but in Victoria at least the Ambo cover does not apply for accidents on the road. The Ambos will send you a bill that will need to get sent to the TAC.

they do...???

when i got tipped off a few years ago and carted off to Royal melbourne...I just told the Ambos, when we got to hospital, I was a paid up subscriber
never heard anymore about it (guess the TAC and the Ambulance service talked)

In NSW the Ambo can talk directly with health funds and if your covered you don't need to even get involved. Same for hosp cover here and the hosp even waives any excess if you use your fund over going public as they still get paid by the fund instead of no cost treatment.