City of Perth Amboy, NJ
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2023-07-12
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 44 Fire Department
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Article III Emergency Medical Services
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Administration of Government
- Ch 7 Arts Council
- Ch 10 Bonds
- Ch 14 Citizens' Public Safety Advisory Board
- Ch 16 Civil Service
- Ch 20 Code of Ethics
- Ch 27 Court
- Ch 34 Education Board of
- Ch 36 Elections
- Ch 38 Electrical Bureau
- Ch 44 Fire Department
- Ch 44 Art III Emergency Medical Services
- § 44-21 Third party payment plan for Emergency Medical Services.
- Ch 53 Honorary Naming of Streets or Public Areas and Acceptance and Placement of Monuments
- Ch 56 Housing Authority
- Ch 59 Insurance Fund
- Ch 65 Library Board of Trustees
- Ch 78 Parking Utility
- Ch 85 Personnel Policies
- Ch 91 (Reserved)
- Ch 95 Police Department
- Ch 97 (Reserved)
- Ch 98 Public Contracting
- Ch 99 Redevelopment
- Ch 101 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 105 School Traffic Guards
- Ch 108 Seal
- Ch 115 Urban Enterprise Zone
- Ch 120 Youth Services Bureau
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 125 Abandoned Property List
- Ch 129 Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Equipment
- Ch 132 Air Pollution Control
- Ch 135 Alarm Systems
- Ch 137 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 140 Amusement Devices
- Ch 147 Auctions
- Ch 150 Auto Liveries
- Ch 153 Beach Regulations
- Ch 158 Bicycles
- Ch 162 (Reserved)
- Ch 166 Brush, Grass and Weeds
- Ch 170 (Reserved)
- Ch 173 (Reserved)
- Ch 175 Buildings, Unsafe
- Ch 178 Cats
- Ch 181 Certificate of Code Compliance
- Ch 182 (Reserved)
- Ch 183 Clubs
- Ch 184 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 185 Construction/Demolition
- Ch 186 Construction Project Labor Agreements
- Ch 189 Curfew
- Ch 191 Dance Halls
- Ch 195 Disasters and Emergencies
- Ch 199 Dogs
- Ch 200 Downtown Family Restaurant and Entertainment District
- Ch 202 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 204 (Reserved)
- Ch 207 Emergency Damage Contractors and Board-Up
- Ch 212 Explosives
- Ch 217 Filming
- Ch 221 Fire Alarm: Boats
- Ch 222 (Reserved)
- Ch 224 Firearms and Hunting.
- Ch 227 Fire Prevention
- Ch 229 Fishing, Crabbing and Related Activities
- Ch 230 Fireworks
- Ch 231 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 233 Food and Beverage Vending Machines
- Ch 234 Food Establishments, Licensing of
- Ch 238 Fumigation
- Ch 243 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 246 Gasoline: Bulk Sales and Storage
- Ch 250 Graffiti
- Ch 255 Handbills
- Ch 255A Handicapped Parking
- Ch 256 Hazardous Materials
- Ch 258 Historic Preservation
- Ch 259 Home Improvement Contractors
- Ch 260 Identification Card Program
- Ch 261 Insurance
- Ch 266 Junkyards
- Ch 268 Land Use Deposits and Fees
- Ch 269 (Reserved)
- Ch 270 Leaf Collection
- Ch 271 Legal Capacity, Age of
- Ch 274 Library
- Ch 275 Licensed Occupations
- Ch 279 (Reserved)
- Ch 281 (Reserved)
- Ch 286 (Reserved)
- Ch 287 Markets
- Ch 291 Meat Packaging and Labeling
- Ch 295 Milk and Milk Products
- Ch 299 Music Vending Machines
- Ch 301 (Reserved)
- Ch 304 Noise
- Ch 308 Nuisances
- Ch 311 Parental Responsibility
- Ch 312 Parking Meter Zones
- Ch 312A Parks and Recreation
- Ch 313 Pawnbrokers
- Ch 317 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 320 (Reserved)
- Ch 321 Pet Shops
- Ch 326 (Reserved)
- Ch 327 Political Fundraising on Government Property
- Ch 329 Poolrooms and Billiard Parlors
- Ch 331 Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 332 Preparations and Medicines
- Ch 335 Property Maintenance
- Ch 337 Property Registration
- Ch 339 Property, Vacant and Abandoned; Registration and Maintenance
- Ch 341 Publications, Obscene
- Ch 343 Public Entertainment and Special Permits
- Ch 346 Railroads
- Ch 349 Ratproofing
- Ch 351 Recycling
- Ch 353 Rent Control
- Ch 356 Riparian Buffer Conservation Zone
- Ch 359 Sales, Special
- Ch 362 Sanitation
- Ch 364 Security Systems, Voluntary Registry
- Ch 365 Sewers
- Ch 366 Sex Offenders, Registration of
- Ch 368 Shopping Carts
- Ch 371 Shows and Exhibitions
- Ch 374 Signs and Building Facades: Business Improvement District
- Ch 377 Smoking and Lighted Objects
- Ch 380 Snow and Ice Removal
- Ch 381 Special Improvement District
- Ch 382 Steep Slopes
- Ch 383 Storm Sewer Systems
- Ch 384 Stormwater Management
- Ch 386 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 387 Street Performers
- Ch 389 Strikebreakers
- Ch 392 (Reserved)
- Ch 400 Tattooing
- Ch 402 Taxation
- Ch 404 Taxicabs
- Ch 406 Telephones, Public
- Ch 408 Tobacco, Sale of
- Ch 411 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 412 Vehicles, Off-Road and All-Terrain Vehicles
- Ch 414 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 418 Water
- Ch 420 Waterfront
- Ch 422 Wildlife Feeding
- Ch 425 Wreckers
- Ch 429 Zoning Applications—Contribution Disclosures
- Ch 430 Zoning and Land Development
- Ch 432 Zoning - Inclusionary Zoning
- Appendix
- Ch A435 Air Pollution Control Contract
- Ch A436 Council Rules of Procedure
- Ch A437 (Reserved)
- Ch A438 Cable Television and Communications Franchise
- Ch A439 Fiber-Optic Cable Lines
- Ch A440 Redevelopment Plan Amendments
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 10-27-2004 by Ord. No. 1262-2004]
A.
The New Jersey State Department of Health has issued licensure for
the City of Perth Amboy Emergency Medical Services (the "Program")
administered by the Perth Amboy Fire Department EMS Division (the
"Division").
B.
The Program has been in operation providing experience and statistics
regarding the service and patients served.
C.
The Division is applying for a Provider Number from the federal and
state Medicare/Medicaid Program, enabling the municipality to institute
third party payment plan (the "payment plan").
D.
Most residents have a health insurance plan or Medicare/Medicaid,
which provides payments to relieve their payment obligations.
E.
The city shall not balance bill the deductibles and co-pays for the
City of Perth Amboy's residents including those covered by Medicare/Medicaid,
nor bill those Perth Amboy residents for payment obligations without
insurance coverage.
F.
It is in the best interest of the taxpayers of the municipality to
establish the third party payment plan in accordance with the Center
for Medicare/Medicaid Services guidelines ("CMS") so that taxpayers
will not be responsible for any out of pocket expenses.
(1)
The EMS Program Administrator of the Division of EMS (the administrator)
and the Chief Financial Officer of the Municipality (the CFO) in consultation
with the municipality's EMS Program Consultant will be responsible
for the plan's billing.
(2)
The fee service is initially set at five hundred dollars ($500.).
Base rate, plus seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) per mile per
trip.
(3)
The Administrator and the CFO shall annually review the plan's
cost accounting records. The CFO shall obtain an industry average.
(4)
The CFO shall annually, no later than March 1, adjust the fee for
services as set forth in Subsection E(2) herein pursuant to the recommendation
of the Administrator and the EMS Program Consultants.
