User Guide for the Cost Data Collection Instrument

Other Costs Associated with Vehicles 

This section pertains to all vehicles (ground ambulance, e.g. land and water, and NAV) used to respond to  ambulance calls or support ground ambulance operations 

If a shared service,  the allocated cost  

Category 

Type 

Amount 

Registration,  License & Insurance  Total registration  Total license  Total insurance  Maintenance & Fuel  Total Maintenance  Total Fuel 

*For agencies that have a parent organization, you will need to track and allocate to your NPI the portion of  other vehicle costs incurred at the level of the parent organization, based on your organizational approach for  allocating costs to specific NPIs.   

 For maintenance and fuel, the vehicle types CMS will ask about includes:  o Ground ambulances  o Fire trucks 

o Land rescue vehicles  o Water rescue vehicles  o Other vehicles that respond to emergencies but don’t transport patients  o Other vehicles   Do not include any in‐house labor costs already included in the labor section or any outside service or  contract, which will be asked about separately

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