Guy Helps Family in Rollover Crash, Gets Billed $143 by paramedics who checked pulse/gave water

[Liberal_in_LA]

Guy Helps Family in Rollover Crash, Gets Billed $143
Paramedics briefly checked him over, had to bill him


(NEWSER) – Derrick Deanda saw a van on its side after a rollover crash in Elk Grove, California, broke windows to free the father and three kids trapped inside, and then ... got billed $143. "I pulled up right as it happened," Deanda recalls to CBS Sacramento of the September 2015 incident. "There was a guy standing inside the van, because it was on its side, holding a 2 year-old infant." After paramedics arrived, they briefly checked over Deanda, who had a small cut from breaking the glass, checking his pulse and giving him a bottle of water. That's why, weeks after the crash, he got a bill in the mail for a "first-responder fee."

"We’re obligated to provide the same level of service, the same billing, the same everything, for every patient we encounter," explains deputy fire chief Mike McLaughlin. "I asked the paramedics for a bottle of water to clean my hand off because I had a small scrape on my hand they ask me questions and they consider that an assessment on me," Deanda wrote on Facebook, per the Daily Mail. McLaughlin says the fire department wants to "make it right" and waive the fee, but that hasn't happened yet, and Deanda plans to formally appeal. He also says the fee sends the wrong message: "Why would I want to stop to help somebody if I’m going to get a bill for $150?" The family members he helped are all OK.

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Good Samaritan who rescued family trapped in a rolled-over van is billed $143 by paramedics who took his pulse and gave him a bottle of water
Derrick Deanda pulled over to help family in Elk Grove, California, last year
He broke the van's window and saw a father holding his two-year-old child
When paramedics arrived at the scene, they checked Deanda over
Officials said he was a patient because he asked for water to wash a cut
Months later Cosumnes Community Services sent him the bill for $143
Deputy Chief Mike McLaughlin says he can appeal the fee


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[hobbit709]

1. It would be a subzero day in Hell before they got any money from me.

[bluesbassman]

2. Good thing the accident didn't happen in front of a hospital.

The bill would've been $14,300.

[cyberswede]

7. LOL - perfect. nt

[lpbk2713]

3. Never let any good deed go unpunished.

OMFG

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. lesson... never accept a bottled water from a EMT

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. I'd think the family he helped might want to cover the bill (if it's not eventually waived).

[Jim Lane]

6. He should send back a bill for $144 as his fee for breaking the windows.

His action facilitated the work of the EMTs so he should of course be compensated.