(a) The fire department shall provide all emergency ambulance service within the city.
(b) The city shall charge the following fees for emergency ambulance services in the city provided in response to a call received by the fire department requesting the services:
(1) $1,473 for each transport of a resident of the city of Dallas to a hospital and $1,868 for each transport of a nonresident of the city of Dallas to a hospital.
(2) $125 for treatment of a person who is not transported by ambulance.
(3) The reasonable cost of any expendable items that are medically required to be used on a person transported by ambulance or treated without being transported by ambulance, including but not limited to drugs, dressings and bandages, airways, oxygen masks, intravenous fluids and equipment, syringes, and needles.
(4) The reasonable cost of any EKG/telemetry that is medically required to be performed on a person transported by ambulance or treated without being transported by ambulance.
(5) The reasonable cost of each additional paramedic over two that is medically required to respond to an emergency call.
(6) $10 for each loaded mile of transport by ambulance, beginning when the patient is loaded into the ambulance and ending upon arrival at the hospital.
(c) The person receiving emergency ambulance service, whether transported by ambulance or treated without being transported by ambulance, and any person contracting for the service shall be responsible for payment of all fees less any reduction in fees received from hardship assistance. In the case of service received by a minor, the parent or guardian of the minor shall be responsible for payment of all fees less any reduction in fees received from hardship assistance on behalf of the qualifying minor.
(d) A current list of charges for the items, services, and personnel described in Subsections (b)(3), (4), and (5) must be maintained in the office of the emergency medical services division of the fire department and made available for public inspection during normal business hours.
(e) The city manager or his or her designee shall adopt an ambulance hardship assistance policy and the procedures for administering the policy.