(A) Emergency medical and ambulance services.
The following fees are hereby established as charges to any recipients of emergency medical transportation and related services provided by the Fire Department, unless otherwise indicated in the city’s comprehensive fee schedule:
January 1 through December 31, 2022 | ||
Basic Life Support | $2,500 | |
Transport fee per mile | $30 | |
January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $2,625 | |
Basic Life Support | $2,625 | |
Transport fee per mile | $31.50 | |
January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $2,756.25 | |
Basic Life Support | $2,756.25 | |
Transport fee per mile | $33.08 | |
January 1, 2025 through December 31, 2025 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $2,894.06 | |
Basic Life Support | $2,894.06 | |
Transport fee per mile | $34.73 | |
January 1, 2026 through December 31, 2026 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $3,038.77 | |
Basic Life Support | $3,038.77 | |
Transport fee per mile | $36.47 | |
January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2027 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $3,190.70 | |
Basic Life Support | $3,190.70 | |
Transport fee per mile | $38.29 | |
January 1, 2028 through December 31, 2028 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $3,350.24 | |
Basic Life Support | $3,350.24 | |
Transport fee per mile | $40.20 | |
January 1, 2029 through December 31, 2029 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $3,517.75 | |
Basic Life Support | $3,517.75 | |
Transport fee per mile | $42.21 | |
January 1, 2030 through December 31, 2030 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $3,693.64 | |
Basic Life Support | $3,693.64 | |
Transport fee per mile | $44.32 | |
January 1, 2031 through December 31, 2031 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $3,878.32 | |
Basic Life Support | $3,878.32 | |
Transport fee per mile | $46.54 | |
January 1, 2032 through December 31, 2032 | ||
Advanced Life Support | $4,072.24 | |
Basic Life Support | $4,072.24 | |
Transport fee per mile | $48.87 | |
(B) Response, rescue and recovery services.
(1) Motor vehicle incidents. The following hourly rates shall apply for the provision of technical services to residents and nonresidents at the levels indicated for responses to motor vehicle incidents:
Level 1 | $546 - Includes hazardous materials assessment and scene stabilization. |
Level 2 | $623 - Includes Level 1 services as well as clean up and material used (sorbents) for hazardous fluid clean up and disposal including gasoline or other automotive fluids. |
Level 3 | $760 - Includes scene safety, tire suppression, breathing air, rescue tools, hand tools, hose, tip use, foam, structure protection, and clean up gasoline or other automotive fluids that are spilled as a result of the accident/incident involving a car fire. |
Add On Services: | |
4-Extrication | $1,641 - Includes heavy rescue tools, ropes, air bags, cribbing. This charge will be added if the fire department has to free/remove anyone from the vehicle(s) using any equipment. The City will not bill at this level if the patient is simply unconscious and fire department is able to open the door to access the patient. This level is to be billed only if equipment is deployed. |
Creating a Landing Zone | $502 - Includes air care (multi-engine company response, mutual aid, helicopter). The City will bill at this level any time a helicopter landing zone is created and/or is utilized to transport the patient(s). |
Itemized Response: | The City has the option to bill each incident as an independent event with custom mitigation rates, for each incident using itemized rates deemed usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR). These incidents will be billed, itemized per apparatus, per personnel, plus products and equipment used. |
(2) Hazmat. The following hourly rates shall apply for the provision of technical services to residents and nonresidents at the levels indicated for responses involving hazardous materials:
Level 1 | $881 - Basic response includes engine response, first responder assignment, perimeter establishment, evacuations, set-up and command. |
Level 2 | $3,146 - Intermediate response includes Level 1 services, hazmat certified team and appropriate equipment, Level A or B suit donning, breathing air and detection equipment, and set-up and removal of decon center. |
Level 3 | $7,426 - Advanced response includes Level 2 services, robot deployment, set-up and removal of decon center, detection equipment, recovery and identification of material, disposal and environment clean up, and disposal of material and contaminated equipment and material used at scene. Includes three hours of on scene time and each additional hour shall be billed at $35600 each per Hazmat team. |
(3) Fire Investigation. Fire Investigation Team - $346 per hour. Includes: scene safety, investigation, source identification, K-9/Arson Dog Unit, Identification Equipment, Mobile Detection Unit, Fire Report. The claim begins when the Fire Investigator responds to the incident and is billed for logged time only.
(4) Fires. Assignment - $503 per hour, per engine/ $629 per hour, per truck. Includes: scene safety, investigation, fire/hazard control. Billed at $2,489 plus $62 per hour per rescue person, plus $126 per hour per Hazmat team member.
(5) Back Country or Special Rescue. Itemized Response: Each incident will be billed with custom mitigation rates deemed usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR). These incidents will be billed, itemized per apparatus per hour, per trained rescue person per hour, plus rescue products used. Minimum billed is $503 for the first response vehicle plus $62 per rescue person. Additional rates of $503 per hour per response vehicle and $62 per hour per rescue person.
(6) False alarm. It shall be unlawful for any person to maliciously turn on or cause to be turned on a false alarm and shall constitute a violation of this section and the offender shall be subject to the fees set forth in this section, unless provided otherwise in the city's comprehensive fee schedule:
(a) First three false alarms within 12 months in a calendar year, $0.
(b) Subsequent false alarms in the same 12-month calendar year, $250.
(7) Water incidents or rescues.
Level 1 | $400 plus $50 per hour per rescue person. Basic response includes engine response, first responder assignment, perimeter establishment, evacuations, first responder set-up and command, scene safety and investigation (including possible patient contact and hazard control) |
Level 2 | $800 plus $50 per hour, per rescue person. Intermediate response includes Level 1 services, clean up and material used (sorbents), minor hazardous clean up and disposal |
Level 3 | $2,000 plus $50 per hour, per rescue person; and $100 per hour per Hazmat team member. Advanced response includes Level 2 services, P.A.R.T. activation, donning breathing apparatus and detection equipment, set up and removal of decon center, detection equipment, recovery and identification of material, and disposal and environment clean up. |
(8) Miscellaneous / Additional Time On Scene. Additional Time on Scene (for all levels of service): Engine billed at $503 per hour. Truck billed at $629 per hour. Miscellaneous Equipment billed at $378.
(9) Mitigation Rates. The mitigation rates above are average billing levels for one hour of service and are typical for the incident responses listed; however when a claim is submitted, it may be itemized and based on the actual services provided.
(C) Fees and collection of fees.
(1) Rates generally.
(a) The city shall initiate mitigation rates for the delivery of emergency and non-emergency services by the Fire Department for personnel, supplies and equipment to the scene of emergency and non-emergency incidents as listed herein. The mitigation rates shall be based on actual costs of the services and that which is usual, customary and reasonable (UCR), which may include any services, personnel, supplies, and equipment and with baselines established by ordinance.
(b) No fee shall be charged for emergency medical transportation services to any person employed by the city when the illness or injury giving rise to emergency medical transportation services is covered by the city’s worker’s compensation insurance.
(c) The fees imposed by this section may be reduced or waived upon recommendation by the Fire Chief and approval by the Mayor in cases where it is deemed to be in the best interests of the city or when payment of the fee would be an undue hardship or the person receiving emergency medical transportation services is found to be incapable of paying the fees.
(2) Billing of responsible party. A claim shall be filed to the responsible party through their insurance carrier or may be billed directly to the responsible party. The responsible party may include the person receiving the rendered services or the person responsible for creating the event or condition necessitating the provision of emergency or non-emergency services by the Fire Department.
(3) Rules governing rates and billing. The City Council may make rules or regulations and from time to time may amend, revoke or add rules and regulations as it may deem necessary or expedient in respect to billing for services under this section and the collection of rates as established herein or as established in the city’s comprehensive fee schedule.
(4) Refusal or failure to pay. Any person or entity that refuses to pay or fails to pay charges billed will be deemed to have violated this section. The city may pursue all remedies at law and equity to recover service charges due and owing, including the use of the services of a collection agency.
(5) Fee schedule. The fees as set forth in this section shall be charged unless provided otherwise by the city’s comprehensive fee schedule.
(Prior Code, § 33.018) (Ord. 96-382, passed 3-26-1996; Ord. 11-135, passed 7-26-2011; Ord. 2014-002, passed 1-14-2014; Ord. 2022-039, passed 6-29-2022; Ord. 2022-054, passed 10-11-2022)