36-15 Resolution authorizing Execution of BSA with ImageTrend and Attachment.pdf

RESOLUTION WHEREAS, the Township of West Orange (the “Township”), through the Township's Fire Department, provides emergency ambulance transport services to residents and visitors of the Township; and WHEREAS, provision of the foregoing services entails substantial annual cost, the cost of which can be offset by charging medical insurance companies a user fee for ambulance transport services; and WHEREAS, following competitive bidding, by adoption of Resolution 160-13 on August 20, 2013, the Township authorized the award of a third-party billing contract to Revenue Guard, a New Jersey corporation with a principal business address of 50 U.S. Highway 9, Morganville, New Jersey, 07751 (“RevGuard”); and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Township's agreement with RevGuard, RevGuard is responsible for all costs related to software utilized in connection with the third-party billing services provided to the Township by RevGuard; and WHEREAS, it is anticipated that in the coming year, the Township will begin to utilize software owned by ImageTrend, Inc. (“ImageTrend”) in connection with the third-party billing services provided to the Township by RevGuard; and WHEREAS, ImageTrend has requested that the Township execute a Business Associate Agreement (“BSA”), which shall govern the transmission of health information protected by state and/or federal law, in the form annexed hereto as Attachment “A”; and NOW, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED BY THE TOWNSHIP COUNCIL OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WEST ORANGE, that the Township shall and hereby does authorize execution of the BSA, to be executed in the form annexed hereto as Attachment “A”; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Mayor be and is hereby authorized to execute all documents necessary to effectuate such agreement between the Township and ImageTrend, and the