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ORDINANCE Page 2 of 8 <br /> <br />patient transport service: <br />A. Charges to Be Made. All persons who are transported by fire department emergency <br />paramedic/aid unit shall be charged for all services rendered by the fire department. Each <br />person transported will be billed for all services provided. EMS members and nonmembers, as <br />defined in subsection B of this section, shall be billed at the same rate. <br />B. EMS Membership Benefits. By reason of property tax levies under RCW 84.52.069 for EMS, <br />which are levied against property within the corporate limits of the city or are levied against <br />property within the corporate limits of a jurisdiction for which the city has assumed contractual <br />EMS responsibility, each resident of the city and those of contractual jurisdictions, by signing (by <br />recipient or authorized representative) a city-approved EMS membership form containing an <br />assignment of benefits to the city, together with an appropriate release of medical information, <br />shall become an EMS member and be entitled to membership benefits as herein provided. An <br />EMS member receiving transport by the fire department unit shall be deemed to have paid (by <br />reason of the special levy imposed under RCW 84.52.069) that portion of the charges incurred <br />which is not payable by third parties and insurers, including but not limited to any insurance or <br />medical benefits of any nature available to such member. This EMS membership benefit of <br />coverage of charges in excess of available insurance or medical benefits shall cease when or if: <br />1. A member ceases to be a resident; <br />2. A member refuses to provide requested information pertaining to third party coverage or to <br />provide appropriate releases of information and assignment of benefit to the city on forms <br />provided by the city; or <br />3. Such EMS membership benefit is limited or extinguished by amendment or repeal of this <br />chapter. <br />C. Nonmembers. Persons receiving transport by fire department units who are not entitled to <br />an EMS membership shall be required to pay all charges incurred. Where practical, the city, in <br />accordance with procedures to be approved by the finance department, will, with the <br />authorization of a nonmember receiving fire department transport services, first seek payment <br />of charges incurred from such nonmember’s insurance or other medical benefit provided. Such <br />nonmember shall remain fully responsible for any amount due which is not paid by such third <br />parties. <br />D. Medicare and Medicaid. Eligible recipients of Medicare and Medicaid benefits shall be <br />charged as the result of transport services by the fire department at only the maximum rate <br />allowed under the Medicare and Medicaid federal programs, and the city shall accept as <br />payment under the Medicare and Medicaid programs only such maximum amount as the city <br />may collect pursuant to the applicable requirements and guidelines of the Medicare and <br />Medicaid programs. <br />E. Additions, Purchase, Compliance with Capital Facilities Plan. Additions and purchases to and