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Harrisonville adopts resolution to write off nearly $972,000 in uncollectible ambulance debts
Summary
The Board of Aldermen approved Resolution 2025-10 to remove $971,861.60 in uncollectible emergency medical service (EMS) accounts from city receivables, covering older accounts and several nursing-home bills.
The Harrisonville Board of Aldermen on Monday approved a resolution allowing the fire department to write off $971,861.60 in designated uncollectible ambulance and EMS accounts.
Chief Sullivan, speaking for the Harrisonville Fire Department, told the board the accounts include older bills from 2016–2018 and about 31 accounts billed to nursing homes that the city no longer expects to collect. "This is the bad debt that the fire department incurs ... these are the bills that have went to collections and you can no longer collect it either through death or they just…
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