(a) Definitions.
(1) “Basic Life Support services” include all services provided by the North Baltimore Emergency Medical Squad on an ambulance run, excluding I.V. (intravenous) services and excluding the use of a defibrillator, whether or not the person served is transported.
(2) “Advanced Life Support” includes the providing of I.V.’s and/or the use of defibrillation equipment in addition to any other services defined as Basic Life Support, whether or not the person served is transported.
(3) “Resident” means any person who maintains his or her permanent residence within the corporate limits of the Village of North Baltimore.
(4) “Non-Resident” includes any person who does not maintain his or her permanent residence within the corporate limits of the Village of North Baltimore, whether services are provided to said person inside the corporate limits of the Village or outside the corporate limits of the Village.
(5) “Contract services” means those services provided under written contract by the Village of North Baltimore Emergency Medical Squad to any other political subdivision.
(6) “Rescue Services” means the use of any equipment maintained in the North Baltimore Emergency Medical Squad’s rescue unit, including but not limited to extraction equipment, such as the “jaws of life”.
(7) “Mileage” shall include “loaded” miles only, to be calculated from the time a unit takes a patient on board for transport until said patient exits said unit at a hospital or other destination (i.e. loaded miles only).
(8) “Oxygen [“O2"] and the “providing of oxygen” shall mean the use of oxygen equipment while caring for or transporting of any person.
(Ord. 98-04. Passed 2-17-98.)
(b) Charges for Service: (1) Basic Life Support (BLS) Transport $550.00 (2) Advanced Life Support One (ALS-1) Transport $750.00 (3) Advanced Life Support Two (ALS-2) Transport $875.00 (4) Mileage Charge per loaded mile $14.00 (5) Refusal of Treatment or Transport $360.00 (Ord. 17-47. Passed 11-21-17.) |
(c) Charges for Medications and Supplies: In addition to the charges set forth in subsection (d) hereof, patients will be charged for all medications administered during transport. In addition, patients will be charged for all materials and supplies used during transport that cost in excess of ten dollars ($10.00) to replace. A list of such medications and supplies and the amounts to be billed to patients for same will be maintained on file in the Village Clerk’s office.
(Ord. 08-21. Passed 5-20-08.)
(d) Services Provided Without Charge: There will be no charge for assistance rendered to disabled persons and the elderly, who fall and call for lift assistance. The EMS Chief shall review such calls for service to determine if charges should be waived.
(Ord. 08-12. Passed 4-1-08.)
(e) Refusal of Services. Any person, firm, or company, other than an employee of the Village of North Baltimore, a member of any law enforcement agency acting in his or her official capacity or a member of any Fire Department acting in his or her official capacity, who causes the dispatch of any Village of North Baltimore Emergency Medical Squad Unit, shall be charged thirty dollars ($30.00) when there is a refusal of services by the person for whom the unit was dispatched to serve. The Chief of the Emergency Medical Squad shall have authority to waive this charge if, in his opinion, the person who made the call was acting under the reasonable assumption that emergency medical services were needed.
(f) Billings.
(1) For billing purposes, each victim served by the North Baltimore Emergency Medical Squad shall be treated as a separate run and shall be billed accordingly, even if more than one victim is served by the same Emergency Medical Technicians or ambulance crew responding to a call as a result of a single dispatch.
(2) All billings will be made at the time of the Emergency Medical Squad run and are due and payable within fifteen days thereafter. Bills not paid within thirty (30) days of the date they are due and payable shall incur interest at the rate of 1 1/2% per month [18% per annum].
(Ord. 06-95. Passed 3-28-95.)
(g) Waiver.
(1) Whenever Village Ambulance or Emergency Medical Squad services are provided to any member of the Emergency Medical Squad, or to any member of the Village Fire Department or any member of the immediate family as hereinafter defined of said member, and where charges for said services are invoiced to said person as required by the Ordinances of the Village; to the extent that said invoiced charges are not paid by applicable insurance policies, including but not limited to medical or hospitalization insurance policies, Workers’ Compensation coverage, or liability or med- pay policies from any source, the excess charges not paid shall be waived and not collected from said member or from the member of the immediate family of the volunteer who received said service.
(2) “Immediate family” as used in this section shall include only the volunteer members or spouse, his or her minor children under the age of 18 years, whether said child resides with the employee or official, or resides elsewhere, and adult children of said member who are under the age of 21 years, are unmarried and who, at the time the service is provided, reside in the same household as said Village employee or official.
(Ord. 99-22. Passed 5-6-99.)