DAN NEPHIN AND HANNAH SUTTON | LNP / LANCASTERONLINE
Four municipalities are taking the Municipal Emergency Services Authority of Lancaster County to court in an effort to get it to stop billing them when it provides emergency medical services to their residents.
Columbia and Mount Joy boroughs and Rapho and West Hempfield townships filed the action Thursday in Lancaster County Court.
The four municipalities do not contract with Elizabethtown-based MESA to provide EMS services, however under the concept of mutual aid, MESA responds when their EMS provider — Penn State Health Life Lion — is unavailable, and vice versa.
In their complaint, the four municipalities want a judge to tell MESA that it has no legal authority to bill them for services and that they do not have to pay bills that have been sent to them, which total $117,300.
Phone messages left Thursday for MESA’s manager, Wade Amick, were not immediately returned.
MESA essentially replaced Northwest EMS and began providing EMS service in February 2024. It was formed in an attempt to create a fiscally sustainable model for providing emergency medical services in the region Northwest formerly served.
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