This.

If you don't have any ortho or head injuries/ anything that I am worried could be life/limb, I'd probably recommend that you get yourself some bandaging of your own. I did 6+ years of EMS/standby's and also 911 emergency response. Treatment with no transport is a minimum $375 fee, ambulance transfer is an automatic $675 base fee and $10 per mile, and $15 extra each mile after 50 miles. We worked for a non profit organization too, so we weren't your average commercial industry trying to fill the pockets of the board members, merely making budget and having enough money to keep supplies up for the community.


I'm pretty sure wound cleansing in the E.R is a base fee of $150, and a physician fee is over $1,000.



edit: to add what was mentioned in the above post. An injury is an injury, and unless we're talking mass casualty, there would definitely be no need to delay a transport because there could be a "more serious" matter. This again coincides that the injury is viable for EMS transport, such as what I mentioned above. A broken bone will be transported as would a heart attack, however if both happened at the same time, the heart attack would take precedence.

double edit: they didn't clean the wound or do any bandaging and I read the OP wrong. I do admit it would have been beneficial for them to do some cleaning, however depending on their company could still have cost you hundreds of dollars.