Township of Union, NJ
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2024-01-23
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Part I: Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 48 Emergency Medical Services
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 9 Administration, Department of
- Ch 19 Claims Approval
- Ch 24 Contracts
- Ch 29 Court, Municipal
- Ch 39 Economic Development
- Ch 43 Emergency Management
- Ch 48 Emergency Medical Services
- Ch 48 Art I Third-Party Payment Plan
- § 48-1 Establishment.
- § 48-2 Responsibility.
- § 48-3 Fees.
- § 48-4 Annual review of accounting records.
- § 48-5 Contracts with hospitals.
- § 48-6 Contracts with volunteer first aid squads.
- § 48-7 Fee adjustment.
- § 48-8 Filing of copy.
- Ch 50 (Reserved)
- Ch 57 Environmental Commission
- Ch 65 Flood Control Commissions
- Ch 72 Health, Board of
- Ch 76 Human Relations Commission
- Ch 91 Law, Department of
- Ch 98 Mayor's Alliance Against Drug Abuse
- Ch 102 Meetings
- Ch 107 Nepotism
- Ch 112 Officers and Employees
- Ch 122 Payroll
- Ch 127 Personnel Benefits
- Ch 131 Public Safety Department
- Ch 136 Public Works Department
- Ch 141 Purchasing
- Ch 151 Recreation, Department of
- Ch 156 Residency Requirements
- Ch 164 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 171 Tax Assessment, Department of
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 190 Affordable Housing
- Ch 195 Alarms
- Ch 199 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 203 Amusements and Entertainment
- Ch 208 Animals
- Ch 213 Auctions and Auctioneers
- Ch 226 Bingo and Raffles
- Ch 231 Brush, Grass, Weeds and Leaves
- Ch 240 Buildings, Moving of
- Ch 245 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 249 Business Operations
- Ch 252 Cannabis Business Permits
- Ch 256 Donation Bins
- Ch 261 Condominium and Cooperative Conversions
- Ch 266 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 270 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 274 Cranes
- Ch 279 Curfew
- Ch 287 Drug-Free Zones
- Ch 294 Fees
- Ch 298 Firearms and Hunting
- Ch 302 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 307 Fires and Fire Prevention
- Ch 316 Gasoline Stations and Garages
- Ch 321 Golf
- Ch 326 Graffiti
- Ch 337 Junk Dealers and Junkyards
- Ch 344 Liability Insurance
- Ch 346 Library
- Ch 351 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 356 Limousines
- Ch 361 Littering
- Ch 365 Locomotion Devices, Human-Powered
- Ch 371 Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles
- Ch 376 Multiple Dwellings
- Ch 387 Newsracks
- Ch 392 Nuisances, Public
- Ch 403 Obscenity
- Ch 407 Outdoor Cafes
- Ch 415 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 419 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 423 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 440 Property Maintenance
- Ch 447 Rental Property
- Ch 457 Sales and Outdoor Displays
- Ch 461 Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 466 Sewers and Sewage Disposal
- Ch 476 Shopping Carts
- Ch 481 Site Improvements
- Ch 486 Smoking and Tobacco Products
- Ch 491 Soil Removal
- Ch 496 Solid Waste
- Ch 501 Space Heaters, Liquid-Fuel-Burning
- Ch 505 Special Improvement Districts
- Ch 520 Stormwater Management
- Ch 530 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 534 Sump Pits and Pumps
- Ch 550 Taxation
- Ch 554 Taxicabs
- Ch 559 Telephones, Public
- Ch 564 Theaters
- Ch 568 Towing
- Ch 573 Trailers and Tourist Camps
- Ch 577 Trees
- Ch 590 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Part III: Land Development
- Ch 170 Land Development
- Part IV: Board of Health
- Ch 650 General Provisions, Board of Health
- Ch 660 Animals
- Ch 682 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 693 Fees, Board of Health
- Ch 697 Food Establishments, Retail
- Ch 708 Health Officers and Personnel
- Ch 713 Housing
- Ch 728 Laundries, Launderettes and Dry-Cleaning Establishments
- Ch 735 Noise
- Ch 739 Nuisances, Public Health
- Ch 754 Recreational Bathing Places, Public
- Ch 761 Sanitary Standards
- Ch 766 Sewage Disposal Systems, Individual
- Ch 781 Wells
- Appendix
- Ch A800 Cable Television Franchise
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township
of Union as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 7-27-2004 by Ord. No. 4828 (Ch.
260, Art. I, of the 2004 Code)]
A.
The New Jersey
State Department of Health has issued licensure for the Union Township
Fire Department's Emergency Medical Services (the "program") administered
by the Township of Union.
B.
The program has
been in operation providing experience and statistics regarding the
service and the patients served.
C.
The Department
is applying for a provider number for the Federal and State Medicare/Medicaid
Programs, enabling the municipality to institute third-party payment
plan (the "payment plan").
D.
Most residents
have health insurance plan or Medicare/Medicaid, which provides payments
to relieve their payment obligations.
E.
The Township shall
not balance bill the deductibles and co-pays for the Union Township
residents, including those covered by Medicaid/Medicare, nor bill
those Union residents for payment obligations without insurance coverage.
Mutual aid partners residents will be treated in accordance with established
policy of reciprocal agreement.
F.
It is in the best
interest of the taxpayers of the municipality to establish the third-party
payment plan in accordance with the Health Care Finance Administration
guidelines ("HCFA") so that taxpayers will not be responsible for
any out-of-pocket expenses.
The Chief of the Department of Fire (the "Chief")
and the Business Administrator or his/her designee of the municipality
(the "B/A") in consultation with the municipality's EMS Program Consultant
will be responsible for the plan's billing.
The fee service is initially set as $500 base
rate, plus $7.50 per mile trip; nontransports where aid is provided:
$250.
The CFO and the B/A shall annually review the
plan's cost accounting records. The B/A shall obtain an industry average.
The Township of Union is authorized to enter
into contracts with various hospitals that provide (ALS) services
to the patients that are transported by Union Township Fire Department
Emergency Medical Services allowing the hospitals to bundle bill Medicare
for services rendered. The hospital will reimburse the municipality
for its transportation costs within 30 days of receiving payment.
The Township may contract with the volunteer
first aid squads to provide third-party billing as established in
this article should that be necessary.
The B/A shall annually, no later than March 1, adjust the fee for services as set forth in § 48-3 herein pursuant to the recommendation of the Chief of the EMS Program Consultants.
A certified copy of this article shall be filed
with the applicable federal and/or state agencies.
