HB 2374
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-fifth Legislature
Second Regular Session
House: COM DP 9-0-0-1
HB 2374: acute care services; pilot program
Sponsor: Representative Cobb, LD 5
Caucus & COW
Overview
Outlines requirements for a mobile health practitioner for the purposes of the Acute Care at Home
Pilot Program (pilot program).
History
Laws 2021, Chapter 320 established a three-year pilot program that allowed for the delivery of
acute care services to patients in their home by licensed Arizona hospitals. The pilot program is
administered by the Arizona Department of Health Service (ADHS) who establishes the pilot
program's rules and collaborates with interested hospitals (Hospital at Home Program).
Provisions
1. Asserts that, in providing healthcare services, the hospitals participating in the pilot program
must include the services of mobile health practitioners. (Sec. 1)
2. Requires a mobile health practitioner:
a) to have at least two years of experience as a paramedic and be certified in community
paramedicine before January 1, 2023;
b) beginning January 1, 2023, to have at least two years of experience as a paramedic and
be certified in community paramedicine before being employed as a mobile health
practitioner; and
c) to provide health care services under supervision of a licensed physician who works for
the ambulance service that employs the mobile health practitioner. (Sec. 1)
3. Specifies that the supervising physician is responsible for directing and reviewing the health
care services and activities of the mobile health practitioner. (Sec. 1)
4. Prescribes a mobile health practitioner's scope of practice as that which is delegated to the
mobile health practitioner by the supervising physician. (Sec. 1)
5. Asserts that if the pilot program requires in-person visits, a mobile health practitioner may
provide those visits in place of a nurse visit. (Sec. 1)
6. Permits required nurse visits to be conducted either virtually or in person. (Sec. 1)
7. Makes conforming and technical changes. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note