§321-232  Revenues; deposit into stategeneral fund.  (a)  The department of health shall establish reasonablefees for services rendered to the public by the department of health, anycounty, or private agency under this part; provided that all such revenueswhich shall be collected by the department of health and the respectivecounties shall be deposited into the state general fund, except such amountsnecessary to provide for collection services for bad debt accounts.  Feesrequired to be set by this section shall be established in accordance withchapter 91.

(b)  No ambulance services, or any otheremergency medical services available from or under the authority of thischapter shall be denied to any person on the basis of the ability of the personto pay therefor or because of the lack of prepaid health care coverage or proofof such ability or coverage.

(c)  In the event of nonpayment of any feesrequired to be assessed by this section, the department of health shalldetermine whether the recipient of such services is financially able to paysuch fees and make every reasonable effort to collect such fees.  In the eventthe department finds the person is without sufficient resources to pay for theservices, no further action to collect the fees shall be taken.  If theservices are paid by a county or any other entity, and collection of such feeis delegated by contractual agreement to the county or other agency whichprovides the services, the county or other agency shall forward recordsrelating to unpaid fees for action by the department of health under thissubsection.  No county or other entity shall make a final determination of theability of a person to pay under this subsection.  Any determination of abilityto pay for purposes of this subsection shall be in accordance with rules whichthe department of health shall adopt, subject to chapter 91, governing suchdeterminations. [L 1978, c 148, pt of §1; am L 1984, c 77, §1]