911 calls are a good profit center for the city. They won’t go ‘in network’ with insurers so they don’t have to accept negotiated rates. And since they are out of network, the insurer will pay very little. So the victim gets victimized.
In my experience, we had about a 35 percent collection rate on 911 calls. We survived off of doing inter-hospital transfers where the patients were usually able to pay us.