City of Milwaukee - File #: 061232

• File #: 061232
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/17/2007
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 3/22/2007
• Effective date: 4/11/2007
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to advanced life support rates for transports conducted by the fire department.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: AMBULANCE SERVICE, FIRE DEPARTMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/10/2007	2	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
3/28/2007	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
3/22/2007	2	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	14:0
3/8/2007	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
3/8/2007	2	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	4:0
3/8/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Appearances: James Baker representing Bell Ambulance. Chief Wendtlandt, Milwaukee Fire Department.	Pass	4:0
3/1/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/1/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/15/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Appearances: Assistant Fire Chief Mark Sain, Milwaukee Fire Department. Battalion Chief Pepie DuDevoire, Milwaukee Fire Department. Martin Morics, City Comptroller. Attorney Franklin Gimble, Representative for Bell Ambulance. Motion by Ald. Puente that Exhibit (1), Comparison of Current Chapter 75-15 with File 061232, provided by Attorney Gimble be made part of the record. Prevailed. 5-0. Mr. Martin Morics, City Comptroller expressed the following concerns about Common Council File #061232 in its current version. He stated passage of the ordinance as is would impact the city negatively for the following reasons. -The city does not generally setup departmental funds that require disbursements outside of the budget. -The impact of the ordinance as currently written will take $4,000,000 of revenue out of the priority setting budget process that the Council has every year; this will allow expenditure authority to devolve to the department without budgetary review by the Council. -If the ordinance is passed and effective it could negatively impact the budget because the funds would no longer be general fund revenues. - Even though the file was submitted to address ambulance rates, the current version will damage the fiscal operations and policy making should not be done. Finally, the ordinance needs to be re-written to avoid any of the instances listed. Motion by Alderman Witkowski that the committee hold Common Council File Number 061232 again. This file was held at the January 25, 2007 Public Safety Committee meeting. At that time Alderman Witkowski requested data be provided by the Fire Department indentifying Milwaukee County's historical collection rate. Alderman Witkowski reiterated his previous request for the Fire Department to provide data identifying Milwaukee County's historical collection rate when this file is rescheduled before the Public Safety Committee.	Pass	5:0
2/7/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/7/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/7/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
1/25/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HELD TO CALL OF THE CHAIR; Minutes note: Appearance: Chief Wentlandt, Milwaukee Fire Department. Alderman Witkowski requested data be provided indentifying Milwaukee County's historical collection rate.	Pass	4:0
1/24/2007	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
1/23/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
1/23/2007	1	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
1/19/2007	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
1/17/2007	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
061232
Version
Substitute 2
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to advanced life support rates for transports conducted by the fire department.

Sections
75-15-14-0 am
75-15-15-0 am
75-15-16-0 am
75-15-17 rn
75-15-17 cr
75-15-18 rn
75-15-18 am
75-15-20 cr

Analysis
The Milwaukee County Association of Fire Chiefs and the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council of Milwaukee County have approved the list of billable charges that the municipalities participating in the countywide paramedic system can charge patients and their agents for advanced life support services delivered by municipally operated medical emergency dispatch vehicles. This ordinance establishes a fee schedule for patient charges for advanced life support level services and transports delivered by fire department paramedic units that operate under the countywide paramedic system agreement.

In addition, this ordinance permits the fire department to bill for and collect the revenues generated from the advanced life support service provisions and conveyances.

This ordinance also sets the amount charged for mileage at $12.00 per mile. Mileage is defined as the distance traveled with the patient in the ambulance from point of origin to destination.

Finally, this ordinance requires the fire chief to present annual status reports to the common council on all fire department advanced life support billing activities, including descriptions of the amounts invoiced, collected, and outstanding, no later than June 30 commencing June 30, 2008.

Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 75-15-14-0 of the code is amended to read:

75-15 Ambulance Certification Regulations.

14. AMBULANCE [[RATE]] >>RATES BILLED BY PRIVATE SECTOR PROVIDERS<<.
Part 2. Section 75-15-15-0 of the code is amended to read:

15. AMBULANCE ANCILLARY CHARGES >>BILLED BY PRIVATE SECTOR PROVIDERS<<.

Part 3. Section 75-15-16-0 of...