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EVERETT WASHINGTON ORDINANCE NO. 3722-20 An ORDINANCE Relating to Emergency Medical Services,amending Ordinance 3205-10,as amended WHEREAS, A. Since 1974 the Fire Department has been providing emergency medical services. B. The Fire Department provides both Basic Life Support ("BLS") and Advanced Life Support ("ALS") emergency medical services during the transport of patients. Pursuant to Chapter EMC 5.72.210, the Fire Department is authorized to set its transport service fees at rates that cover the actual costs incurred in providing the services. This ordinance updates the transport service fees to reflect current costs. NOW,THEREFORE,THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 1.N of Ordinance 3205-10, as amended (codified at EMC 5.72.210), is amended as follows, with strikeouts deleted and underlined text added: N. Fire Department Transport Fee Imposed. Fire department transport fees shall be as follows: 1. Patients for whom the fire department provides ALS 1 transport shall be billed 3+x eight hundred a -#ems ninety dollars per transport,the cost of the medical supplies used in the transport, and fifteen dollars and forty two cents eighteen dollars and fifty cents per mile. For the purposes of this subsection, "ALS 1" means the following: Transportation by ground ambulance vehicle and the provision of medically necessary supplies and services, including the provision of an ALS assessment or at least one ALS intervention, which means a procedure that is, pursuant to state and local laws, beyond the scope of practice of an emergency medical technician—basic(EMT—basic). 2. Patients for whom the fire department provides ALS 2 transport shall be billed eight nine hundred eighty dollars per transport,the cost of the medical supplies used in the transport, and fifteen dollars and forty two cents eighteen dollars and fifty cents per mile. For the purposes of this subsection, "ALS 2" means as follows: " Transportation by ground ambulance vehicle and the provision of medically necessary supplies and services including either: