SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – There’s a growing trend among municipalities in Marion County to join a program that covers residents for any costs of an emergency air transport that insurance doesn’t pay.
Now, the South Pittsburg City Commission is considering a membership in the program, too.
At the board’s February meeting, Linda Robinson, a membership sales manager with AirMedCare, said “a community plan” for all households in the town could be purchased to cover residents as long as the emergency flight takes place inside the county lines.
“As long as you are a property owner and pay some type of tax to the city, that determines whether or not you’re a city resident,” Jimmy Morse, another AirMedCare membership sales manager, said.
Renters are a “gray area,” he said, but if those tenants are paying some type of utility bill to the town each month, they are still covered under the plan.