The Administrator of the Palisades Park Emergency Medical Services shall
be responsible for overseeing the plan's billing in cooperation with
the Chief Financial Officer of the Borough of Palisades Park (the "CFO") and
municipality's EMS Program Consultant, if applicable.
The Administrator and the CFO shall annually review the plan's
cost accounting records. The CFO shall report the accounting to the governing
body.
The Borough is authorized to enter into contracts with various hospitals
that provide ALS services to the patients that are transported by the municipal
ambulance service. This allows the hospitals to bundle-bill Medicare for services
rendered. The hospital will reimburse the municipality its transportation
costs within 45 days of receiving payment.
The CFO of the Borough shall annually, no later than February 1 of each
year, adjust the fee for services as set forth herein, and recommend the change(s)
to the governing body.
No individual needing emergency medical services within the jurisdiction
of the Borough, to the extent that services are available, shall be denied
said services on any basis whatsoever, including and not limited to residency,
ability to pay or any other factor. No person located within said Borough's
jurisdictional limits shall be denied emergency medical services to the extent
that same are available.
Except as may be arranged pursuant to a duly adopted emergency medical
service agreement, the fee to be charged by the Borough of Palisades Park
for emergency medical service shall be as follows:
A. For providing treatment with transportation: $400 plus
$7.50 per mile.
B. For providing treatment without transportation: $200.
The fee paid to the Borough for providing emergency medical services
shall be paid by the following:
A. Payment by an insurance company for service provided
to an individual who has insurance coverage for same; or
B. The payment of a fee by any person receiving such ambulance
services shall be waived if he or she has no medical insurance coverage in
effect and such person is a taxpayer or resident of the Borough.
A certified copy of this article shall be filed with the Borough Clerk
and applicable federal and/or state agencies.