133.03 EMERGENCY LIFE SQUAD TRANSPORTATION.

   (a)    Definitions. Unless the context specifically indicates otherwise, the meanings of the terms used in this section shall be as follows:

      (1)    "Advanced life support" means emergency treatment which an Advanced Emergency Medical Technician as defined in Ohio R.C. 3303.08(B) or an Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic as defined in Ohio R.C. 3303.08(C) is qualified to administer, including, but not limited to the following: establishing and maintaining an intravenous lifeline, cardiac monitoring and defibrillation, administering injections of epinephrine, airway or gastric incubation, relief of pneumothorax or administering appropriate drugs or intravenous fluids.

      (2)    "Basic life support" means emergency treatment which an Emergency Medical Technician as defined in Ohio R.C. 3303.08(A) is qualified to administer, including but not limited to the following: opening and maintaining an airway, giving positive ventilation, cardiac resuscitation, controlling of hemorrhage, treatment of shock, immobilization of fractures, bandaging, assisting in childbirth, management of mentally disturbed patients and initial care of poison and burn patients.

         (Ord. 89-10-75. Passed 10-25-89.)

   (b)    Fees for Services.

      (1)   The fee for emergency transportation of each person requiring advanced life support services shall be the Usual, Customary and Reasonable (UCR) Charge established by insurance companies within the region, which may fluctuate accordingly, and may be set by the City Manager or his designee and adjusted annually for inflation based on the Federal Ambulance Inflation Factor.

      (2)   The fee for emergency transportation of each person requiring basic life support services shall be the Usual, Customary and Reasonable (UCR) Charge established by insurance companies within the region, which may fluctuate accordingly, and may be set by the City Manager or his designee and adjusted annually for inflation based on the Federal Ambulance Inflation Factor.

         (Ord. 2013-8-70. Passed 8-28-13.)

   (c)    Payment of Fee.

      (1)    No person shall be charged for advanced life support or basic life support treatment unless he or she is transported by the City's Emergency Life Squad.

      (2)    Every person being transported by the Emergency Life Squad or some other person on behalf of that person being transported shall complete and execute an assignment of benefits form at the time of such Emergency Life Squad transport.

      (3)    If either the person being transported or some other person on behalf of that person being transported, when, for any reason, the person being transported is unable to execute an assignment of benefits, fully, truthfully and accurately completes and executes an assignment of benefits form which entitles the City to recover its Emergency Life Squad transportation fee directly from the appropriate public or private insurer or any federal, State or County public welfare agency which may be responsible for paying the Costs of the treated person's emergency transportation, the person being transported shall not be held liable for all or any part of the fee set forth above.

         If the person being transported or some other person on behalf of that person being transported provides incomplete, false or misleading information which prevents the City from recovering upon its assignment of benefits, the person being transported shall not be relieved of liability for the fee set forth above until a complete, truthful and accurate assignment of benefits form has been prepared, signed and presented to the Finance Department.

         If in spite of the completion of an assignment of benefits form, the person being transported receives all or any part of the City's Emergency Life Squad transportation fee, the person being transported shall not be relieved of liability for such fee until he or she has remitted to the City all moneys he or she received for payment of such fee for such Emergency Life Squad service.

         (Ord. 89-10-75. Passed 10-25-89.)

      (4)    If the person being transported has no insurance and no other payment source for the Emergency Life Squad fee exists, or if the appropriate public or private insurer or federal, State or County welfare agency pays less than the full Emergency Life Squad fee, the balance still due and owing for transportation of that person shall be submitted to the Department for payment from the General Fund. The City Manager, upon advice and concurrence of the Fire Chief, may negotiate to adjust and settle the Emergency Life Squad fees.

         (Ord. 2010-2-9. Passed 2-24-10.)