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Boone County accepts recommended ambulance billing rates; clerk to prepare resolution
Summary
Boone County officials accepted recommended ambulance billing rates presented by the Boone County Health Center and approved a contract with a collection agency to pursue unpaid ambulance charges; the board voted unanimously to accept the schedule and to have the County Clerk prepare a formal resolution.
Caleb Poore of the Boone County Health Center presented recommended billing rates for Boone County Ambulance service on March 27, and the board accepted the recommendations and asked the County Clerk to draft a formal resolution for a future meeting.
The recommended schedule presented and accepted by motion included: Ground Mileage $28.00 per loaded mile; ALS1 Non-Emergency $1,270; ALS Emergency $1,321; BLS Non-Emergency $860; BLS Emergency $1,268; ALS2 $1,910; Specialty Care Transport $2,253. Commissioner Brian J. Yosten moved to accept the hospital's recommendation; Commissioner Matt Niewohner seconded the motion. The motion passed on a unanimous roll-call vote (Yeas: Yosten, Niewohner, Lindgren).
In a related action, the board approved an Assignment Agreement with Collection Professionals Inc. that allows the company to attempt collection of unpaid ambulance service charges. That motion also passed unanimously.
The board directed County Clerk Kate Noble to prepare a resolution reflecting the accepted rate schedule for signature at the next meeting. No specific implementation timeline or retroactivity for the new rates was specified in the discussion recorded at the meeting.
