Double pump. Blood carries oxygen and many other substances around your body. Oxygen from your blood reacts with sugar in your cells to make energy. The waste product of this process, carbon dioxide, is carried away from your cells in your blood. Your heart is a single organ, but it acts as a double pump.
On average, an ambulance company will charge anywhere from $350 to as much as $2,000 for a trip without insurance. Even with health insurance, an ambulance ride may not be covered 100 percent. According to this LaTimes.com article, a patient was billed more than $1,538 for her ambulance ride.
I was charged $1144 for an ambulance in New York City, zip code 10027. I tried to look in the healthcarebluebook.com, found nothing. I looked it up on fairhealthconsumer.com; the code I received was A0427, but they did not have that, and I used the codes A0426 and A0428, which gave me the range of $500-700. When I spoke with a billing...