Travis County Commissioners Court
June 14, 2005
Item 13
Now, casey pen here is here. 13 is consider and take appropriate action regarding fees to patients for starflight services. There's really a $500 increase for out of county, right?
>> right.
>> in-county remains the same.
>> currently we're thought recommending any in-county increases, although we are assessing that with p.b.o. And the auditor's office and maybe talking with you about that during our work session for the '06 budget.
>> this is for out of county.
>> out of county.
>> and we are still below what the private carriers are doing and related to the transport guys, it's high guys, fuel. That one was really --
>> but the key is we're still below. We need to look. Let's just make sure we are competitive. I mean, I don't care if it's 50 cents. Let's get -- we can say we're lower.
>> and this did go to the e.m.s. Committee. There is one other thing related to the definition of county. It's really county of residence fee. We actually had situations where Travis County folk who happen to be out of county were charged an out of county fee and there were people who were out of county residents because their incident occurred within Travis County got charged like they were an in-county resident. I think what we always had intended is that it's really your county of residence determines which. And actually it works to our financial advantage ever so slightly for us to flip that around.
>> you'll be able to implement that up?
>> I think we're looking at July 1st implementation.
>> okay. Motion by Commissioner Sonleitner to approve the recommendation.
>> second.
>> any more discussion? All in favor? That passes by unanimous vote. Thank you.
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