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Newberg FireMed Membership Program
Newberg FireMed is a membership program that protects you from the high cost of ambulance service. When you or a family member faces a life-threatening emergency, have peace of mind knowing that we are here for you. For only $45 per year, you and your family are covered if you need a medically necessary or physician authorized ambulance transport. You allow us to bill your insurance provider(s) if you have one, and you never have any additional out of pocket expense for that transport.
What is Open Enrollment?
During open enrollment (September 1 – October 31), member benefits take effect immediately after receipt of completed application and payment. Applications received between November 1 and August 31 are subject to a 30 day waiting period, and the cost is not prorated. This applies to current members who are renewing their membership as well. All memberships expire on October 31 each year.
Why Newberg FireMed?
Last year over 2,000 people in Newberg’s Ambulance Service Area (ASA) required ambulance services. The average ambulance transport costs over $1000.Insurance companies seldom pay for ambulance costs in full, and Medicare covers approximately 80% of allowable ambulance fees. Newberg FireMed bills any insurance provider(s) you may have and accepts their payments as payment in full with no balance due from the subscriber.
Annual Subscription Fee: Still only $45 per year!
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Newberg FireMed is an Investment
Your $45 investment stays right here in our community and goes directly to the Newberg Fire Department. Professional paramedic training and advanced medical technology are essential, but expensive. Your membership helps us to save lives.
With Newberg FireMed, our Area Includes:
Emergency coverage within the City of Newberg’s Ambulance Service Area (ASA). Physician authorized coverage extends to Salem, Portland, McMinnville, and other area hospitals and care homes. Member benefits are extended throughout the state in areas participating in the FireMed reciprocal network.
FireMed Frequently Asked Questions:
Who is eligible to join Newberg FireMed?
Membership is open to anyone living in the Newberg Fire Department’s ASA. (Newberg/Dundee area)
Who is covered with my membership fee?
You, and all related persons living in the same occupancy are covered. Newberg FireMed also covers family members living in substitute care (nursing home or foster care home) within the Newberg Fire Department ASA and college students who are claimed as legal dependents on the member’s income tax return. Non-family persons living in the member’s household are considered a separate family and must obtain a separate membership.
Do I have to have insurance to join?
No. Membership is open to anyone in our service area whether or not you have insurance.
What do I do if I need to use an ambulance?
Call 911 if it’s an emergency- do not call the fire department. A physician may order the transport as well. In either case your name will come up in our confidential FireMed database reflecting your current membership. You don’t have to do a thing.
What is Open Enrollment?
During open enrollment (September 1 – October 31), member benefits take effect immediately after receipt of completed application and payment. Applications received between November 1 – August 31 are subject to a 30 day waiting period, and the cost is not prorated. This applies to members who are renewing their membership as well. All memberships expire October 31.
How do I join?
Click here to enroll in or renew your FireMed membership.
LIFEFLIGHT AIR AMBULANCE
Enhance your Newberg FireMed membership by adding LifeFlight
LifeFlight Network is a not-for-profit emergency air medical transport service designed to quickly reach seriously ill or injured patients, provide life saving care, and transport to an appropriate medical facility. An additional $60 contribution per year supports this vital community service. Membership covers you, your spouse or significant other, and legal dependents for medically necessary emergent transport.
Help Save Lives
Our helicopters are staffed 24-7 at the Eugene, Aurora, Hillsboro, Kelso-Longview, and Dallesport airports. A critical care nurse and paramedic staff each unit and are available to respond on a moment's notice. We also have airplanes for long distance transports. About one-half of requests come from local fire departments or ambulances (scene calls), but the other half of the time, we respond to outlying hospitals to transport critical patients to larger hospitals. With a LifeFlight membership, you are covered in several other locations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
You may enroll in or renew your Lifeflight membership when you activate a FIreMed membership.
NOTE: Effective September 1, 2011 Lifeflight no longer offers discounted partnership rates. The cost for a LifeFlight membership is $60 per year.
See www.lifeflight.org for full details.
