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4 <br /> N. Fire Department Transport Fee Imposed. Fire department transport fees <br /> shall be as follows: <br /> 1. Patients for whom the fire department provides ALS 1 transport shall <br /> be billed at the rate of six hundred ninety-four dollars per transport, the <br /> cost of the medical supplies used in the transport, plusand fifteen <br /> dollars-and-forty-two_cents_per_mile.-F_or_the-purposes_of_this <br /> subsection, ALS 1 means the following: <br /> Transportation by ground ambulance vehicle and the provision of <br /> medically necessary supplies and services, including the provision of <br /> an ALS assessment or at least one ALS intervention, which means a <br /> procedure that is, pursuant to state and local laws, beyond the scope <br /> of practice of an emergency medical technician—basic (EMT—basic). <br /> 2. Patients for whom the fire department provides ALS 2 transport shall <br /> be billed at the rate „f eight hundred dollars per transport, the cost of <br /> the medical supplies used in the transport,plusand fifteen dollars and <br /> forty-two cents per mile. For the purposes of this subsection, ALS 2 <br /> means as follows: <br /> Transportation by ground ambulance vehicle and the provision of <br /> medically necessary supplies and services including either: <br /> a. At least three separate administrations of one or more <br /> medications by intravenous push/bolus or by continuous <br /> infusion in accordance with approved protocols, including, but <br /> not limited to, the American Heart Association Advanced <br /> Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) protocol; or <br /> b. At least one of the following ALS 2 procedures: <br /> i. Manual defibrillation/cardioversion; <br /> ii. Endotracheal intubation; <br /> iii. Central venous line; <br /> iv. Cardiac pacing; <br /> v. Chest decompression; <br /> vi. Surgical airway; or <br /> vii. Intraosseous line. <br /> 98 <br /> 9 <br />