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Fire chief proposes $550 no-transport ambulance fee for health-care facilities; committee forwards fee schedule
Summary
Fire Chief Jeff Lowe proposed applying the $550 base ambulance fee to calls to health-care and assisted-living facilities that request city response but can be served by facility staff; the committee moved the updated EMS no-transport fee schedule to the City Council for adoption and discussed enforcement and collection challenges.
Jeff Lowe, Bangor's fire chief, proposed that the city begin billing health-care and assisted-living facilities a $550 base ambulance fee for calls where the facility requests a city response but the facility has the capacity to assist the person on site.
"We started tracking calls, late last year...2 75 is what we did last year for runs to those types of facilities," Chief Lowe said, describing the volume as taxing on the system. He added that "this year so far...we're already up to 225 calls," and that "if you look at 225 calls and…
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