HSB 617 (LSB 5893YC (3) 90)

HOUSE FILE _____ 

BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BILL BY CHAIRPERSON MEYER)

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to the transport of patients to mental health access centers by an ambulance.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  147A.19  Transport to mental health access centers.
   A service program may provide ambulance service to transport a person experiencing a mental health crisis to a mental health access center.
    Sec. 2.  AMBULANCE TRANSPORT TO MENTAL HEALTH ACCESS CENTERS —— BILLING.  The department of health and human services shall authorize payments to service programs for the transportation of persons experiencing a mental health crisis to mental health access centers in amounts similar to payments authorized for the transportation of persons to hospital emergency departments.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill relates to the transportation of persons by ambulance service programs. The bill allows an ambulance service program to transport a person experiencing a mental health crisis to a mental health access center. The bill directs the department of health and human services to authorize payments to service programs for the transportation of persons to mental health access centers in amounts similar to payments authorized for the transportation of persons to hospital emergency departments.