Thank you, Joe, for posting that link to the TapInto article.
Here is the link to that TapInto article again
The article mentions a 5.01 minute response to Sea Girt.
It also states that Ocean Township, Tinton Falls, and Colts Neck have already signed up.
The Youtube Video below is very informative, please watch to the end. It mentions a 21 second response to Oakhurst.
Fort Monmouth seems to be the current location for storing the vehicles.
Video below posted by NJ Spotlight News
Click below for the Monmouth County Sherrif’s EMS Website
sounds like alott’a cr*p to me…
How does Monmouth County provide EMS service for ‘free’?? Sounds like a scam where everyone signs up and then costs spiral. There’s no free lunch. Insurance coverage has failed to cover the EMS expenses.
Exactly. The County premise that this service is free is a farce. County tax rates will skyrocket. I’m not saying this is a bad program due to the lack of volunteers these days. But don’t misrepresent the facts. Shaun Golden wants to spread his wings and Mike Bascom is a puppet.
Currently, Belmar EMS (for residents) accepts health insurance payment for the mileage to Jersey Shore Medical Center … no balance billing!
Remember MONOC ?
went out of business in 2020 for nasty billing practices …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monmouth_Ocean_Hospital_Service_Corporation
All insurance carriers have require balance billing to covered patients unless a fully executed financial waiver is signed. All providers, including, but not limited to, for example First Aid Ambulances – EMS had to process insurance claims and secondary insurance of patients if they had any. Ethically, any patient balances as required by carriers could not and should not be arbitrarily waived. I volunteered to process all claims and balance billing for Belmar First Aid-EMS free of charge (charity) but I was immediately rebuffed inasmuch as they had a paid Employee on the books of the charity.
What I meant, was that health insurance payments for transportation to the hospital cannot cover the total cost to provide EMS. The cost; EMT salaries, equipment, facilities, training…, must be subsidized by towns or the county.
Who will pay for the ‘free’ Monmouth County EMS? Paid from County taxes that property owners pay as a portion of their tax bill (town, school and county).
*** ****** ********* Tom Arnone and Shaun Golden will pay for it out of the proceeds earned from our new county airport. Just don’t pay any attention to your county tax rate.
(Asterisks are mine, Editor.)
Belmar should let Wall Twp EMS take over
A good idea.
So it seems to me that Belmar residents are paying twice for EMS? Our municipal purpose tax rate of 0.513 must include our own EMS expenses I would think. And then we pay Monmouth county tax at 0.275, which must include the County’s EMS, which we don’t use. Or is the Monmouth county tax rate higher in the towns that use their EMS?
Let Wall Twp take over!