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Council holds second reading on EMS-billing ordinance that would let billing contractor set annual fees
Summary
Urbana held a public hearing and second reading of Ordinance 46 15-25 to amend Chapter 141 (EMS/fire billing and EMT indemnity). City staff said the changes would let the city adopt a dynamic, annually adjusted fee schedule and expand billable fire/rescue services; no final vote was taken.
Urbana City Council held a public hearing and completed a second reading Tuesday on Ordinance 46 15-25, which would amend Chapter 141 of the codified ordinances to revise indemnity language for emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and replace a static EMS-fee method with a dynamic, annually adjusted fee structure.
City staff and the fire chief told the council the current fee formula limited revenue recovery and that the updated language would allow the city’s billing contractor to update fees each year to match contractual allowances from insurers. “With these changes, we anticipate about a 10 to 15% increase in billing revenue within a year,” the presenter said during the public hearing.
The ordinance would remove a provision in Section…
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