{"id":41940,"date":"2025-08-22T00:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41940"},"modified":"2025-08-22T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T04:42:37","slug":"the-cost-of-an-ambulance-ride-in-this-portland-area-county-is-about-to-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41940","title":{"rendered":"The cost of an ambulance ride in this Portland-area county is about to double"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/52F6DPV7CNGVLNATZTAC2GU2HM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">The county board approved a new contract two weeks ago and it came with a major jump in costs to patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/politics\/2025\/08\/the-cost-of-an-ambulance-ride-in-this-portland-area-county-is-about-to-double.html\">The cost of an ambulance ride in this Portland-area county is about to double<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>jfc. 5KC$ + milage!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Under the new agreement, base prices for an ambulance pickup have jumped from $1,676 to $2,245, and that cost will rise again in November to $3,480, the contract shows. AMR also charges for the miles it takes to transport someone to the hospital. Those rates will climb from $35.10 to $72.90 in November, records show.<br><br>The provider also charges a fee of $280 an hour for patients who are treated on site and not ultimately transported to a hospital, the county said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The county board approved a new contract two weeks ago and it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[281,57],"class_list":["post-41940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-healthcare","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41943,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41940\/revisions\/41943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}