Full-time residents of St. Pete Beach, meaning people who are in residence at least six months of the year, are eligible to become members under the program. The memberships are free to the members. Here is information about the program. In order to become a member of the ambulance program, you must file a membership application with the St. Pete Beach Fire Department. Memberships do not have to be renewed unless you change your insurance or add or remove members of your family.
How the program works:
Under this ambulance program, member residents will receive emergency transports via ambulance from within the city limits of St. Pete Beach to the appropriate hospital facility. You may be transported by either the St. Pete Beach Fire Department or the Sunstar Ambulance Company.
Residents will be billed by Sunstar. The Sunstar bill is then to be taken or mailed to either Fire Station #23, located at 7301 Gulf Boulevard, St. Pete Beach, FL 33706. The statement is then returned to Sunstar along with a copy of your Ambulance Subscription Plan application. Sunstar then bills your health insurance provider. If your insurance does not cover the full cost of ambulance transportation, the Ambulance Subscription Plan covers the remainder, and you pay nothing.
If you receive a reimbursement check from your insurance provider for this service, you must immediately endorse the check over to Sunstar and mail it to Sunstar at P.O. Box 31704, Tampa, FL 33631-3074.
The fine print:
This coverage only applies to ambulance transportation that originates within the City of St. Pete Beach city limits.
You are only covered for medical emergencies, which are defined as the specific need for ambulance transportation to a hospital or other emergency health care facility with Pinellas County when other forms of transportation would be medically inappropriate because of the patient's medical condition.
If abuse of the plan is found to exist, your membership will be canceled.
