City officials said there many occasions when patients call for ambulances for non-emergency medical situations.
Sometimes, Hobart paramedics have been dispatched to the same location multiple times a day for those purposes.
Those excessive non-emergency medical calls, like for lift assists, could result in charges. The City Council is contemplating adding such a fee to reduce situations in which paramedics are sent to locations but no medical service or transportation is provided.
“There are people who abuse it and everybody suffers because of it,” Councilman Dan Waldrop said.
Councilman Dave Vinzant said creating a charge wouldn’t be to recover costs associated with services but to prevent the situations from happening.