Queensland residents travelling interstate
If you can demonstrate that your principal place of residence is still in Queensland (i.e. Drivers Licence) you will be covered.  If you no longer have a principal place of residence in Queensland or have taken up residence in another State or Territory then you cease to be a Queensland resident and will not be covered.

Full Time Students studying interstate
Full time students under the age of 25 years, whose parents are Queensland residents, are covered by the Community Care Ambulance Cover.
Part-time students living interstate are not covered.

Queenslanders injured in another needing ambulance transport back to Queensland
Queensland Ambulance Service will not automatically cover interstate transfers (repatriation) back to Queensland on convalescence or compassionate grounds, but will be based on urgent / medical grounds.

Interstate transfers must be authorised by a medical practitioner to be eligible and will only be facilitated where the ongoing care of a patient would be compromised if they were not returned to Queensland.

Any Queenslander requiring repatriation should confirm entitlements with Queensland Ambulance Service before arranging transport on
07 32150415

Visitors to Queensland
Community Ambulance Cover only applies to people whose principal place of residence is in Queensland.  If a visitor from another state or overseas requires ambulance services whilst in Queensland they will be charged for those services.  The QAS recommends that interstate visitors should contact their own State or Territory ambulance service, or a health fund, to enquire about options for coverage in Queensland.  International visitors should arrange travel insurance.

Queensland residents who receive an interstate account for ambulance service
QAS will arrange payment; you will need to forward the account plus proof of residency such as:

• Photographic identification which includes the address of you current place of residence; and/or

• Current statement from bank or financial institution showing the address of your current principal place of residence,  the name of the institution and the date; and/or   

• A Queensland Seniors Card showing the name, number and address recorded with the Department of Families; and/or

• A statutory declaration, which declares the full address of their current principal of residence

To:

Director Community Service Unit
Queensland Ambulance Service
GPO Box 1425
Brisbane Qld 4001

Further details on the Community Ambulance Cover is available at www.ambulance.qld.gov.au or by telephoning the QAS Community Ambulance Cover hotline 1300 369 003

New South Wales
Ambulance transport fees for road, fixed wing and helicopter services are all charged an emergency call out fee of $222.00 and then a per kilometre rate of $2.01.  Exemptions from ambulance fees include pensioners, health care card holders and veterans.  For more information visit www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au and click on "Ambulance Fees" menu.

To arrange ambulance cover, you will need to contact a registered private health fund of your choice.  Costs and inclusions differ from fund to fund.  Some funds also offer "ambulance only" insurance.  Medicare does not cover ambulance fees.

When paying your invoice by mail, post the payment section with your cheque or money order made payable to the Ambulance Service of NSW or complete the payment section of your invoice with your credit card details (Amex, Diners Club, Mastercard and Visa are accepted).

For account enquiries, please call 131816 during normal business hours and have your savings, cheque or credit card details ready.

A simple fact sheet (PDF) has been developed to answer frequently asked questions.  This fact sheet also includes information on interstate cover and reciprocal arrangements.  For more information www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au/docs/releases/2008/080305interstatefees.pdf

Australian Capital Territory
As a Department of the Emergency Services Bureau, the ACT Ambulance Service (ACTAS) is a progressive organisation, with responsibility to provide pre-hospital emergency and non-emergency care and transport to the people of the Australian Capital Territory, and its immediate surrounds. ACTAS is an Intensive Care Paramedical Service, thus offering the highest level of pre-hospital emergency care to the community. All ACT Ambulance units are crewed by at least one Intensive Care Paramedic. ACTAS also crews and provides an areomedical rescue and retrieval helicopter service (Snowy Hydro SouthCare) from the ACT to the local and SE NSW region.
As with many other states and territories the ACT does not provide free ambulance services and the cost is recovered on a user-pays basis. Example of the cost of Ambulance transport within the ACT are:  
Emergency or Non-Emergency - $214.00 incl. first 16km then $7.00 per km thereafter
Routine - $164.00 incl. First 16km then $4.00 thereafter
If you are a resident of the ACT either permanent or temporary you are eligible to subscribe to the ACT Ambulance Subscription Fund. The cost of subscription to the ACT Ambulance Service Fund is:                 $54.00 for Family Cover
$27.00 for a Single  
Although the subscription is administered by NIB Health Funds, this is a specific subscription service for the ACT, and differs from regular NIB cover:
ACT Ambulance cover for resident members are covered for :
All Emergency Ambulance Transport
All Non-Emergency Ambulance Transport
All Areomedical Transport
All Ambulance Transport provided by Interstate Services  

A further question was posed to ACTAS - 
"Are travellers who are members of a service in another state eligible/covered under any reciprocal service agreement?" 
The reply is quoted. 
"That would depend on the service with whom you have the cover with. Travellers should check with their own provider prior to travelling. Most services do cover individuals whilst interstate, but their is no reciprocal arrangements at you may think. What happens is an account is generated and the client then takes it to their fund provider and they pay the account. So if I was transported in Queensland, the QAS would bill me and I would take it to ACTAS who would pay the account on my behalf.

South Australia
Ambulance transport in South Australia (SA) works on a user-pay’s system.

‘The fee for an ambulance service is payable by the patient transported to, or from a hospital, surgery or other place whether or not he or she consented to the provision of the service’

The cost for an emergency ambulance is around $600.00 depending on the priority at time of dispatch.

Ambulance Cover is intended for permanent residents within SA. Non-SA residents should contact either their private health fund or own State or Territory ambulance service, to check the level of cover they have prior to travelling.  International visitors should arrange the necessary travel insurance.

South Australian Ambulance Cover members are covered for:

• All medically justified emergency and non-emergency transport except where a third party is involved.
• Interstate Ambulance transport from a recognised interstate Ambulance Service (Invoice must be submitted to SA Ambulance Service for payment)
• RFDS (Royal Flying Doctors) 

For additional information on our terms and conditions, and on subscription prices for Ambulance Cover and our other products, please refer to our website www.saambulance.com.au

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