When people call 911 for ambulance service in Niles, their insurance company is charged a fee. Niles officials are considering changing that fee after Fire Chief Marty Feld proposed increasing those fees to insurance companies.
Feld’s proposal, made at the village’s Sept. 13 public safety committee meeting, is to set a flat $1.500 charge for ambulance service when paramedics respond within the village.
Currently in place is a tiered system of differing charges for Niles residents or non-residents and differing charges for the type of responding vehicle, basic life support, advanced life support (with a “one” rating) and advanced life support (“two” rating).
Those charges range from $500 for basic life support for a Niles resident to a $1,150 charge for advanced life support two for a non-Niles resident.