HF 2397 (LSB 5893HV (3) 90)

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.

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PAT GRASSLEY
Speaker of the House

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AMY SINCLAIR
President of the Senate

   I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and is known as House File 2397, Ninetieth General Assembly.

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MEGHAN NELSON
Chief Clerk of the House

Approved _______________, 2024

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KIM REYNOLDS
Governor