Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Municipality of Anchorage (MOA) will accept proposals from companies to provide billing and collection of ambulance transport services and fire inspections. The MOA Anchorage Fire Department (AFD) bills for all ambulance transports provided by Anchorage AreaWide Emergency Medical Service (AAWEMS), including transports by AFD, Chugiak Volunteer Fire and Rescue Co., Inc.(CVFR) and Girdwood Fire and Rescue, Inc.(GFR). No fees are currently charged for services that do not result in transport, and there are currently no plans to do so. The AFD has 14 fire stations currently in-service. Thirteen AFD MICU (mobile intensive care unit) ambulances are in-service on a daily basis, plus one at GFR and one at CVFR. Two AFD ambulances are BLS level with the rest ALS. This composition detail could change slightly over the course of the contract term. System software for AFD EMS report writing and ePCR (electronic Prehospital Care Report, sometimes called Patient Care Report) generation is Zoll Tablet PCR. Once data is exported locally, normally by date of service, the file(s) preference of delivery would be a secure FTP site for data encryption in-transit. CVFR and GFR Patient Care Reports are generated from the Zoll FireRMS system on a centrally located SQL server. These patient care reports are exported by AFD billing staff into a file and sent monthly, via preferred secure FTP site to the contractor, along with a summary billing charges statement.
