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| BLS Base | ALS Base | ALS II Base | Speciality Care | Mileage | Other | Ambulance | |||||||||
| Charges | $985 | $1,057 | $1,144 | $1,291 | $23.00/Mile | $25.00/Hour | $250/Day | ||||||||
| Definitions | |||||||||||||||
| BLS Base | This is the base charge for any care that is a Basic Life Support call (BLS). | ||||||||||||||
| ALS Base | This is the base charge for any care that is considered a higher level of intervention, an Advanced Life Support | ||||||||||||||
| Call (ALS). | |||||||||||||||
| ALS II Base | This is the base charge for any care that is considered a higher level of intervention than an ALS call, | ||||||||||||||
| an Advanced Life Support II (ALS II). | |||||||||||||||
| Specialty Care | This is the base charge where extra staffing or extra equipment is necessary to maintain the condition of the | ||||||||||||||
| patient on a transfer from St. Vincent to a higher level of care. | |||||||||||||||
| Mileage | This is the charge per mile for "patient loaded" miles. The patient is not charged for miles from the hospital | ||||||||||||||
| to the point of patient contact, nor is the patient charged for the ambulance return trip when the patient has | |||||||||||||||
| been transferred to a higher level of care. | |||||||||||||||
| Other | This is the charge per hour per crew member for any entity requesting an EMT for Special Events. | ||||||||||||||
| All Special Events are at the approval and discretion of hospital administration. | |||||||||||||||
| Ambulance | This is the charge per 8 hour day for any entity requesting a stand-by ambulance for Special Events. All Special | ||||||||||||||
| Events are at the approval and discretion of hospital administration and does not include emergent tranportation | |||||||||||||||
| to the hospital. | |||||||||||||||
| Prices As Of | 2009 - November | ||||||||||||||