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Relating to the expansion of the ground emergency medical transportation program
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeFebruary 25, 2025
- Done: House committeeMarch 5, 2025
- Skipped: Passes the HouseContinued as HF 941
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Became HF 941 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to HF 941 What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary The Department of Health and Human Services must hire new staff to help more ambulance services join a state medical program. These employees will help providers with technical tasks and help them sign up for Medicaid. Every year, the department will also send a report to the legislature about how many providers joined and what problems they faced.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. _____ 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.
House subcommittee
Named February 25, 2025. On March 4, 2025 it recommended passage.
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