Discount for JEMS ahead?

A quick-pay discount plan for Jay Emergency Medical Service could be in the works.
The Jay County Commissioners followed up with their attorney this morning after JEMS billing clerk Marla Grady asked about instating a discount for users who decide to pay in cash.
“Can we give them a 5 percent discount or 10 or whatever we want?” asked commissioner Milo Miller Jr.
Attorney Lon Racster said the county probably couldn’t discriminate between cash or other means of payment, but that it could institute a discount for clients who decide to pay in full.
“I don’t see why you couldn’t … if someone pays with 10 days or 30 days,” Racster said. “If they pay in full within a period of time you could give a discount.”
Racster advised that the commissioners could establish such a discount by adopting an amendment to the JEMS fee schedule.
The commissioners took the counsel under advisement.
In other business today, the commissioners:
•Met with Indiana State Board of Accounts auditors last week. Miller said the county came out of the audit with a “good, clean record” and no major concerns.
•Signed paperwork for county engineer Dan Watson. Watson presented a final acceptance letter for a stimulus resurfacing project that was never signed as well as a detour for the Indiana Department of Transportation, which will be replacing a culvert on Ind. 67 between county roads 250 and 350 East in Bearcreek Township.
•Were informed by Miller that he and Portland Mayor Bruce Hosier met with Indiana Department of Environmental Management representatives last week about wetlands remediation work needing to be done at the former XPLEX site on county road 100 North. Miller said he wasn’t sure at this point what role, if any, the county will have in the remediation work.[[In-content Ad]]