Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-5-106

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 30-5-106 - Scope of ambulance services

(a) General provisions of coverage. Ambulance services shall be available to program recipients. Services shall include the following:

(1) emergency transportation to a facility where medical services will be rendered; and

(2) non-emergency transportation of a recipient between the recipient's residence and a medical facility in the recipient's local community or the nearest facility able to render the medically necessary services, and transportation of a patient from one medical facility to another medical facility when the original facility provides inadequate services for treating the patient. Transportation under this paragraph shall require prior authorization for designated services.

(b) Limitations.

(1) The ambulance service shall be licensed.

(2) The recipient's condition shall be such that the use of any other method of transportation is not possible without endangering the health of the recipient.

(3) The use of licensed ambulances for non-emergency wheelchair transportation shall not be covered.

(4) Non-emergency ambulance transportation of a nursing facility resident shall not be covered.

(c) The effective date of this regulation shall be April 1, 1995.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 30-5-106

Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 39-708c; effective May 1, 1981; amended May 1, 1984; amended May 1, 1986; amended May 1, 1987; amended April 1, 1995.