HomeMy WebLinkAbout032846 ORD - 09/06/2022Ordinance amending Corpus Christi Code Section 18-20 to include
an itemized ambulance rate schedule.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS THAT:
Section 1. The Corpus Christi Code of Ordinances, Chapter 18, Section 20 is amended
by adding the following language that is underlined (added) and deleting the language
that is stricken (deleted) as delineated below:
Se' .:8-20. Ambulance rates.
(a) Ambulance rates schedule. Ambulance rates for emergency medical service shall
be charged pursuant to the ambulance rate schedule. The initial ambulance rate
schedule will be approved by city council and must be filed with the city secretary.
The ambulance rates schedule may be amended per the provisions of this chapter
and such amended schedule must be filed with the city secretary.
(b) Adjustment of ambulance rates.
(1) In this section, "consumer price index" means the annual revised South Region
Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for Medical Care, as published
by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(2) Any year in which the consumer price index increases by more than one per
cent (1%) from the previous year, ambulances rates may be adjusted by an
amount equal to the annual change in the consumer price index. Ambulance
rate schedule adjustments shall not exceed five per cent (5%) in a single year
and shall not be adjusted more often than annually.
{3) Ambulance ratc schedule will be submitted to city council annually for rcvicw.
Any adjustment of ambulance ratcs requires city council approval.
(c) The city manager is authorized to establish charges, not to exceed the reasonable
cost of providing the service, for other supplementary services such as providing
standby equipment and crews at special events and attending training courses.
(d) Rates.
Service or Item
Fee Per
Service
or Item
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EMS 911 base rate - Transport
$1,426.55
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EMS 911 base rate — No Transport
$154.50
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Oxygen
$46.35
Advance Life Support (ALS) Routine Disposables
$51.50
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Basic Life Support (BLS) Routine Disposables
$25.75
(e) Supplementary charges:
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(1) Providing a mileage charge of $15.45 per mile from patient pick -Lip point to the
hospital.
(2) Providing a fee for responding to a medical alarm which is a malfunction, no
one at home, no one injured, $61.80.
(3) Providing a charge of $128.75 for emergency medical services provided to
non-residents.
(4) Providing a charge of $46.35 for additional personnel when needed to provide
patient care during transport.
(5) Providing a charge to the facility $257.50 for Fire Department response to
skilled nursing facility for the pick-up of a resident that does not require
transport to a hospital.
Section 2. If for any reason any section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or
provision of this ordinance shall be held invalid or unconstitutional by final judgment of a
court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not affect any other section, paragraph,
subdivision, clause, phrase, word, or provision of this ordinance, for it is the definite intent
of this City Council that every section, paragraph, subdivision, clause, phrase, word or
provision of this ordinance be given full force and effect for this purpose.
Section 3. Publication shall be made in the official publication of the City of Corpus Christi
as required by the City Charter of the City of Corpus Christi.
Section 4. This ordinance takes effect upon publication.
That4he��foregoing ordinance was read for the first time and passed to its second reading on this
the , ; day of 5 ` , 2022, by the following vote:
Paulette Guajardo
Roland Barrera
Gil Hernandez
Michael Hunter
Billy Lerma
That the foregoin
day of s
Paulette Guajardo
Roland Barrera
Gil Hernandez
Michael Hunter
Billy Lerma
John Martinez
Ben Molina
Mike Pusley
Greg Smith
ordinance was read for the second time and passed finally on this the
2022, by the following vote:
John Martinez
Ben Molina
Mike Pusley
Greg Smith
PASSED AND APPROVED on this the U7 day ofnr , 2022.
ATTEST:
Rebecca Huerta
City Secretary
EFFECTIVE DATE I
Paulette Guajardo
Mayor
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Certificate of
Publication
NOTICE OF PASSAGE
OF ORDINANCE(S)
CITY OF CORPUS CHRIS TI -SECRETARY NO. 032846, ordinance
amending Corpus Christi
PO BOX 9277 Code Section 18- 20 to in-
crease ambulance rate
schedule by 3%. Effective
CORPUS CHRISTI, TX 78401 date of October 1, 2022.
This ordinance was passed
and approved on second
reading by the Corpus
Christi City Council on Sep-
STATE OF WISCONSIN) tember 6,2022.
)) /s/Rebecca Huerta
City Secretary
COUNTY OF BROWN)
I,being first duly sworn,upon oath depose and say that I
am a legal clerk and employee of the publisher,namely,the
Corpus Christi Caller-Times,a daily newspaper published
at Corpus Christi in said City and State, generally circulated
in Aransas, Bee, Brooks, Duval,Jim Hogg,Jim Wells,
Kleberg, Live Oak, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio,
Counties,and that the publication of which the annexed is a
true copy,was inserted in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times
in the following issue(s)dated:
09/12/2022
On this September 12, 2022, I certify that the attached
document is a true and exact copy made by the publisher:
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