Chapter 2.98
MISCELLANEOUS AMBULANCE SERVICE RELATED FEES AND CHARGES

Sections:

2.98.010 Schedule of fees and charges.

2.98.010 Schedule of fees and charges.

The following fees shall be charged, on a per patient basis, for services provided by the Walla Walla ambulance service:

A. The nonemergency BLS rate per patient for residents of Walla Walla County shall be six hundred and twenty-four dollars. The emergency BLS rate per patient for residents of Walla Walla County shall be six hundred and fifty-five dollars. The nonemergency ALS rate per patient for residents of Walla Walla County shall be six hundred and seventy-six dollars. The emergency ALS 1 rate per patient for residents of Walla Walla County shall be seven hundred and twenty-eight dollars. The emergency ALS 2 rate per patient for residents of Walla Walla County shall be seven hundred and ninety dollars. The special care transport rate per patient for residents of Walla Walla County shall be one thousand and forty dollars. Each person transported shall have added to the appropriate base fee ten dollars and forty cents per mile transported for the first seventeen miles and nine dollars and sixty cents per mile for miles eighteen to fifty and nine dollars and forty cents per mile for miles greater than fifty miles.

B. The nonemergency BLS rate per patient for nonresidents of Walla Walla County shall be seven hundred and ninety dollars. The emergency BLS rate per patient for nonresidents of Walla Walla County shall be eight hundred and thirty-two dollars. The nonemergency ALS rate per patient for nonresidents of Walla Walla County shall be eight hundred and eighty-four dollars. The emergency ALS 1 rate per patient for nonresidents of Walla Walla County shall be nine hundred and fifteen dollars. The emergency ALS 2 rate per patient for nonresidents of Walla Walla County shall be nine hundred and seventy-eight dollars. The special care transport rate per patient for nonresidents of Walla Walla County shall be one thousand and forty dollars. Each person transported shall have added to the appropriate base fee ten dollars and forty cents per mile transported for the first seventeen miles and nine dollars and sixty cents per mile for miles eighteen to fifty and nine dollars and forty cents per mile for miles greater than fifty miles.

C. All persons who are transported partway by another agency’s basic life support unit, and then are intercepted and transported by a unit of the Walla Walla ambulance service with advanced life support capability, shall be charged the applicable base rate fee plus ten dollars and forty cents per mile transported for the first seventeen miles and nine dollars and sixty cents per mile for miles eighteen to fifty and nine dollars and forty cents per mile for miles greater than fifty miles.

D. All persons to be transferred by the Walla Walla ambulance service requiring ambulance attendants to wait in excess of thirty minutes shall be charged a standby fee of eighty dollars per hour, calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour.

E. All persons who receive more than minor treatment by Walla Walla ambulance service personnel but who are not transported by a Walla Walla ambulance service vehicle shall be charged for all supplies used plus a service fee of forty-two dollars.

F. When a Walla Walla Fire Department paramedic assists other ambulances transporting a patient, who is a resident of Walla Walla County, with advanced life support care by traveling with the patient in the basic life support vehicle, the fee charged shall be six hundred and twenty-seven dollars for nonemergency ALS per patient, six hundred and seventy-six dollars for emergency ALS 1 per patient, and seven hundred and ten dollars for emergency ALS 2 per patient. No mileage will be charged when transporting to a local facility.

G. When a Walla Walla Fire Department paramedic assists other ambulances transporting a patient, who is a nonresident of Walla Walla County, with advanced life support care by traveling with the patient in the basic life support vehicle, the fee charged shall be eight hundred and eleven dollars for nonemergency ALS per patient, eight hundred and sixty dollars for emergency ALS 1 per patient, and eight hundred and ninety dollars for emergency ALS 2 per patient. No mileage will be charged when transporting to a local facility.

H. The special contract rate where ambulance service is made available on a standby basis shall be seventy-five dollars per hour, calculated to the nearest quarter of an hour, plus a charge for all supplies used, and plus any transport charges which may apply. (Ord. 2006-37 § 1, 2006: Ord. 2003-41 § 1, 2003; Ord. 2002-41 § 1, 2002: Ord. 2001-34 § 1, 2001: Ord. 2000-34 § 1, 2000: Ord. 99-41 § 1, 1999: Ord. 98-35 § 1, 1998: Ord. 97-43 § 1, 1997; Ord. 96-45 § 1, 1996; Ord. 95-38 § 1, 1995; Ord. 95-23 § 1, 1995; Ord. 94-43 § 1, 1994: Ord. A-3704 § 1, 1991: Ord. A-3628 § 1, 1990).