Ambulance Club rules - Longwood Fire Company

Ambulance Club rules
Subscription in the Ambulance Club relieves the subscriber and, depending on the tier, the subscriber’s
household from paying any balances after insurance
that is not covered for emergency ambulance service
provided by the Longwood Fire Company.
LFC will pay:
Any non-covered charges or balance remaining
after payment by Medicare, insurance, or any
other third-party provider.
LFC will NOT pay:
Deductibles or co-payments remaining after payment by Medicare, insurance, or any other thirdparty provider.
In the chance that LFC is not available, or if an
outside agency requires one of our paramedics,
your subscription will only cover our services. Any
bills from outside agencies are the patient’s responsibility.
Exceptions to the above-mentioned are calls alerted
through the 911 system that DO NOT require
transport to a hospital. These calls will be billed as
follows to the members:
Basic Life Support treatment without transport:
$175
Advanced Life Support treatment without
transport: $300
Ambulance crew members are certified by the Pennsylvania Department for Emergency Medical Services,
and they must operate within established regulations
and protocol. Determination of the hospital to which a
patient is to be transported is based upon these regulations.
IN MOST CASES, THE PATIENT WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO
THE CLOSEST HOSPITAL.
Ambulance service is NOT provided for non-emergency calls
because of the need to keep the ambulance available for
emergencies. Commercial ambulance companies should be
contacted for non-emergency service.
Ambulance
Subscription Drive
Ambulance club subscription is available to individuals and
families only with valid insurance. It is not available for commercial interests such as businesses and industries.
It is your responsibility to keep us updated with any insurance changes.
Questions?
See our question-and-answer form included with this.
Questions?
Please feel free to send us an e-mail at [email protected], or call (610) 388-6880. Also
check out our Web page for frequently asked questions, at
www.longwoodfireco.com. For your convenience, we have
also included a question-and-answer form as well.
Longwood Fire
Company
Longwood Fire Company
1001 East Baltimore Pike
Kennett Square, PA 19348
Phone:1001
610-388-6880
East Baltimore Pike
Fax:Kennett
610-388-7121
Square, PA 19348
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.longwoodfireco.com
Web: www.longwoodfireco.com
Phone: 610-388-6880
Fax: 610-388-7121
The ambulance club is an insurance policy
for you or the members of your household.
Read on for more details.
EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE WILL NOT BE DENIED TO ANYONE REQUIRING IT, REGARDLESS OF MEMBERSHIP OR ABILITY TO SUPPORT THE COST.
The EMS division of Longwood Fire Company has created this ambulance
subscription drive with you, the residents we serve, in mind.
If you call 911, we will be there, regardless of
whether you are a subscriber.
But as a subscriber, you receive the benefit of
owing nothing other than your deductible and
co-pay.
Ambulance subscriptions, or clubs, represent a
valuable service in the community that fire
and EMS companies are offering.
We’ve received comments and suggestions
about just such an opportunity, and we are
pleased to offer this to the residents we serve
starting June 1, 2012.
Subscription tiers
Single
tion, except as provided in the Ambulance Club
rules.
$50.00
Covers one adult over the age of 18
Household
$100.00
Covers one or two adults and any children under the age of 18 who live
in the same residence
Please note that people without insurance,
or those with lapsed or out-of-date insurance,
are not eligible.
What is the ambulance club?
The ambulance club is an insurance policy for
you or the members of your household. In the
event you should require ambulance services,
our billing company sends an invoice for services to your insurance provider.
Subscriber benefits
Membership for you and members of your household covers any balance for emergency ambulance service during
the membership period that your insurance will not cover.
Membership does not cover co-pays or deductibles; that
remains the responsibility of the subscriber.
You are still responsible for your co-pay and/
or deductible, but as a subscriber, any other
fees not covered by your insurance are
waived, under most circumstances.
Non-members are responsible for, and will be billed for, all
uninsured ambulance service balances.
In addition to covering any out-of-pocket costs
for emergency ambulance service after billing
your insurance, your membership will also
enable us to maintain the most state-of-theart ambulances and medical equipment.
Medicare and traditional insurance companies require us to
send a bill for services for every emergency ambulance
transport (including those for club members).
We will recover as much of our costs for your ambulance
service as provided by Medicare or commercial insurance.
Costs above this amount will be covered by your subscrip-
Ambulance service fee structure
The amounts we bill for ambulance services are
the amounts established by Medicare and commercial insurance companies.
All funds received for these billed ambulance
services are used to support emergency services provided by the Longwood Fire Company.
One hundred percent of your membership fee
is used to provide training, equipment, emergency vehicles, supplies, and operating costs
needed by our staff of paid and volunteer EMS
professionals.
About us
The Basic Life Support territory we cover includes part of Kennett Township and all of the
townships of East Marlborough, Pennsbury and
Pocopson.
We also provide ALS (Advanced Life Support)
services in those areas as well, depending on
the severity of the emergency.
During the day, our crews staff two MICUs —
Mobile Intensive Care Units with an EMT and a
paramedic — and at night we staff at least one
MICU and one BLS unit. We run on average
2,000 calls a year.
EMERGENCY AMBULANCE SERVICE WILL NOT BE DENIED TO ANYONE REQUIRING IT, REGARDLESS OF MEMBERSHIP OR ABILITY TO SUPPORT THE COST.

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