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Relating to the expansion of the ground emergency medical transportation program
Sponsored by the House Health and Human Services Committee
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: House committeeMarch 5, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 977
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 977 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 977 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services will hire new staff to help more ambulance services join a state medical program. These employees will help providers with paperwork and technical questions to make sure people across Iowa can access emergency medical care. Every year, the department must also give a report to the legislature about how many providers have joined and what problems they face.1
Read the official explanation
This bill relates to the ground emergency medical transportation program. The bill requires the department of health and human services (department) to employ dedicated staff for the sole purpose of expanding enrollment in the ground emergency medical transportation program. The bill requires the staff to provide technical assistance, actuary support, and Medicaid enrollment assistance to eligible ground emergency medical transportation providers that seek participation in the ground emergency medical transportation program. The bill directs the department to develop the ground emergency medical transportation program to ensure access to emergency medical services throughout the state. The bill requires the department to submit a report to the general assembly by December of each year regarding the ground emergency medical transportation program, which shall include the number of ground emergency medical transportation providers enrolled in the ground emergency medical transportation program, the number of ground emergency medical transportation providers that the department provided assistance to in the prior fiscal year, and barriers to enrollment in the ground emergency medical transportation program.
Why it matters. The department of health and human services would hire dedicated staff to help more emergency medical service providers join the ground emergency medical transportation program. These staff members would provide technical assistance, actuarial support, and Medicaid enrollment help to eligible providers to ensure emergency medical services are available across the state.2
House subcommittee
Named March 24, 2025. On March 26, 2025 it recommended passage.
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