Pine Haven plans to recoup ambulance costs

“Sundance is charging us now…so they’ve changed their way of doing things,” Pine Haven Mayor Karla Brandenburg said at a recent workshop regarding the changing circumstances facing Pine Haven’s Emergency Medical Services, including the ambulance ride.

The council has been working on a method of recovering at least a portion of these rising costs that will not affect patients who use the service. The billing process the town plans to adopt will bill insurance, but citizens will not receive any kind of bill for their copay.

Jane Merchant, working by “the letter of the law”, has been working with...