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Fire chief reports EMS workload, proposes ending resident soft-billing and pursuing nonresident collections
Summary
Fire Chief Lawson told council the city logged 415 EMS runs and 58 fire incidents Apr—Jun and described a proposal to stop sending soft bills to residents while pursuing nonresident balances through collections; staff said a formal proposal and spreadsheet will be prepared for council review.
Chief Lawson told the Mt. Healthy City Council on July 16 that the fire and EMS department logged 415 EMS runs and 58 fire incidents for the April—June quarter, of which about 235 resulted in patient transports.
The chief described a possible change to the city's transport-billing practice: rather than continuing soft-billing residents, the city would accept payments from Medicare or private insurance for residents and stop sending subsequent soft bills to those residents, while…
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