Ambulance fees approved

After ascertaining the progress of the insurance network earlier this month, Pine Haven’s governing body has approved moving forward with setting the ambulance fee schedule as follows: $1000 per transit and $10 per mile between incident and medical facility.

Pine Haven Mayor Karla Brandenburg said of these amounts, “We are way under what [people] are being charged everywhere else.”

The average cost for the service in surrounding municipalities is $1200-$2000 per transit and approximately $30 per mile, according to Jane Merchant, who is setting up the insurance network, and EMS director Dusty D...