§ 2-13-58. Rates.

(a)

Disclosure and assessment of rates. Rates charged by certificate holders shall be assessed in a uniform manner throughout the incorporated and unincorporated parts of the county. Each certificate holder shall maintain an internet website containing a listing of its rates within the county and each ambulance and air ambulance shall have a rate schedule posted in a place that is readily visible to patients. It shall be unlawful for any certificate holder to charge, demand, request, or accept any rate for services unless that rate has been established pursuant to the following:

(1)

Federal or state law;

(2)

Countywide emergency and non-emergency ambulance service and non-emergency medical transportation vehicle service contracts between one or more private ambulance providers and the county; or

(3)

A lower uniform rate to provide private inter-facility transfer of indigent or Medicaid patients to or from a state-designated and licensed rural hospital, as defined in Section 395.602, Florida Statutes, as amended, where said rate has been negotiated by the hospital and a private certificate holder.

(b)

Ambulance rates charged by county. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all ambulance rates charged by the county's EMS service shall be set by resolution.

(Ord. No. 17-041 , § 3, 4-25-17)