New York Laws
Article 10 - Firefighters and Police Officers
209-B - Emergency Rescue and First Aid Squads.

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this
subdivision, a basic life support service which establishes a schedule
of fees for service shall enter into a contract with a provider or
providers of advanced life support services to provide such advanced
life support services. Such contract shall at a minimum establish the
fees for advanced life support services and the means by which said
provider will be reimbursed when the ambulance service bills for
emergency medical service.
(c) An emergency and general ambulance service, including emergency
medical service as defined in section three thousand one of the public
health law, authorized pursuant to this section which does not issue a
bill for its services and which requests an Advanced Life Support (ALS)
intercept from another ambulance service furnishing service in an area
that is designated as a rural area by any law or regulation of the
state, or that is located in a rural census tract of a metropolitan
statistical area (as determined under the most recent Goldsmith
Modification), shall pay the ambulance service providing the ALS
intercept an ALS Rural Intercept Fee at rates negotiated between the
providers of such services. In the absence of any agreed upon rates, the
service receiving such ALS intercept shall pay the service providing the
ALS intercept for such services at the usual and customary charge, which
shall not be excessive or unreasonable.
(d) An emergency and general ambulance service, including emergency
medical service as defined in section three thousand one of the public
health law, authorized pursuant to this section to fix a schedule of
fees or charges to be paid by persons requesting such service or
services, may apply such fees and charges only within such service's
primary response territory as assigned and evidenced by a valid
ambulance service certificate issued by the commissioner of health
pursuant to section three thousand five of the public health law, on or
before January first, two thousand twenty-two.
(e) An emergency and general ambulance service, including emergency
medical service as defined in section three thousand one of the public
health law, authorized pursuant to this section shall not directly issue
a bill for its services to any uninsured recipient of such services.
* NB Effective until April 9, 2026
* 4. Fees and charges prohibited. Emergency and general ambulance
service authorized pursuant to this section shall be furnished without
cost to the person served. The acceptance by any firefighter of any
personal remuneration or gratuity, directly or indirectly, from a person
served shall be a ground for his or her expulsion or suspension as a
member of the fire department or fire company.
* NB Effective April 9, 2026
5. The term "emergency", as used in this chapter, or in any other law
of general application, in relation to the operations of fire
departments, includes, unless a contrary intent is clearly expressed or
indicated, the search for persons and the search for, and attempts to
recover or the recovery of, bodies of persons even though it is posible
or is known that all hope of life is gone.

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