Category | Title | Description |
Workforce | D.C. Law 24-313 | Supports a scholarship program including tuition, books, and financial support for childcare, transportation, etc. towards a healthcare career in exchange for working in the District for two years. |
TIP and TAD | West Virginia Senate Bill 533 | EMS may triage and transport a patient to an alternate destination in certain circumstances; and provide insurance coverage of EMS include triage, treat and transport to an alternative destination, or to treat in place. |
TIP and TAD | New York SB 8447 | Relation to Medicaid Reimbursement for Treatment in Place and Transportation to Alternative Health Care Settings By Ambulance Services |
MIH-CP | New York S6749B / A6683B | Establishes a community-based paramedicine demonstration program. |
Surprise Billing | New York S01466/A00250 | Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of ambulance services licensed under article 30 of the public health law. |
Surprise Billing | Texas SB 2476 CS | An act relating to consumer protections against certain medical and health care billing by emergency medical services providers. |
Essential Service | Tennessee SB 1597 | Declares EMS as an essential service in TN |
Essential Service | Louisiana R.S. 40 | Declares EMS as an Essential Services in LA |
Essential Service | Nebraska Act 38 | Declares EMS as an Essential Services in NE |
Essential Service | Hawaii Section 93-16 | Declares EMS as an Essential Services in HI |
Essential Service | West Virginia Chapter 16, Article 4 | Declares EMS as an Essential Services in WV |
Essential Service | Nevada Chapter 450B | Declares EMS as an Essential Services in NV |
Essential Service | Iowa Chapter 357F | Declares EMS as an Essential Services in IA |
Essential Service | Pennsylvania Title 35, Chapter 81 | Declares EMS as an Essential Service in PA |
Workforce | Indiana SB 232 - Exposure Risk Diseases | Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty before Jan. 1, 2022. |
Medicaid Reimbursement | Indiana B 1454 - Nonemergency Ambulance Service and Physician Order | The bill specifies that Medicaid may not deny payment for nonemergency advanced life support or basic life support ambulance services, when all policies and procedures have been followed, when rendered to a Medicaid recipient. |
Workforce | New Hampshire HB 224 | Governor signed into law legislation that expands the types of EMS and search and rescue providers who can receive $100,000 state benefit. |
MIH-CP | Montana MIH Statute | Allowing emergency care providers to offer non-emergency medical assistance in their communities to reduce noncritical calls to 911, especially in rural areas. |
Violence Against EMS Practitioners | Vermont H.321 | Expands Vermont's aggravated murder statute to include the killing of a firefighter or an emergency medical provider. |
Workforce | Idaho SB 1028; Signed by Governor | Provides first responders with "clear and convincing" evidence of physiological injury treatment under worker's compensation. |
Workforce | MN HF3873 | Provides legal protections to first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorders. |
Workforce | Florida SB376 | Provides access to treatment for PTSD |
Unauthorized Use of EMS Vehicles | Texas HB1249 | Relating to a prohibition of certain motor vehicles resembling emergency medical services vehicles; creating a criminal offense. |
MIH-CP | Wisconsin AB 151 | An Act to amend, repeal and recreate statutes relating to community paramedics, community emergency medical technicians, community emergency medical services providers, and services provided by emergency medical technicians. |
MIH-CP | Massachusetts transformative healthcare Initiative | Report to Massachusetts legislature re: MIH-CP and funding. |
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