EMS Teams Thanked by Lower Milford Board of Supervisors

EMS representative from Upper Saucon, Coopersburg, Emmaus, Upper Perkiomen, and MaCungie stood to a round of applause and thanks from the Lower Milford Board of Supervisors, representatives of the Eastern Pennsylvania EMS Council, and all those in attendance on Thursday. The congratulatory air was the result of the becoming finalized. The plan will divide emergency transport services for Lower Milford into several regions covered by the neighboring boroughs.

The agreement had been signed by all of the participating townships as well as Lower Milford with only minor adjustments.

Chairperson Donna Wright said that the residents of Lower Milford should see little change in their EMS services. “If anything,” Wright said, “you’re going to see faster responses than before.”

Everitt Binns, executive director of the Eastern Pennsylvania EMS Council, was on hand to thank both the Lower Milford Board of Supervisors and the participating EMS teams. “We’d like to thank you for your leadership,” he said to the board, stressing that the board had overcome a myriad of logistical problems. “It sounds very simple, but when you start bringing in Medicare, Medicaid, billing, it gets difficult.”

The only substantial change that the participating townships requested was that the original agreement’s payment policy be removed. “Their preference was to handle their own billing arrangements,” solicitor Mark Cappuccio said. An addendum was added to the agreement that will allow the agencies to run their own billing arrangements, and a 30 day late payment penalty was removed.