HLS 18RS-953 ORIGINAL
2018 Regular Session
HOUSE BILL NO. 408
BY REPRESENTATIVE JENKINS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Provides relative to reimbursement rates set by local governing
authorities for emergency medical services
1 AN ACT
2To amend and reenact R.S. 33:4791.1(B)(2), relative to local governing authorities; to
3 provide relative to regulation of ambulance services, emergency medical services,
4 and aspects attendant to ambulance operation; to provide relative to rates charged for
5 such services; and to provide for related matters.
6Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
7 Section 1. R.S. 33:4791.1(B)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
8 ยง4791.1. Regulation by local governing authorities of ambulance services,
9 emergency medical services, and aspects attendant to ambulance operation
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11 B. Every municipality or other local governing authority may protect the
12 public health, safety, and welfare by licensing, controlling, and regulating by
13 ordinance or resolution privately operated ambulance services, the furnishing of
14 emergency medical services, and any and all aspects attendant to ambulance
15 operations within the jurisdiction of the municipality or other local governing
16 authority. Every municipality or other local governing authority is empowered to
17 regulate the following:
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19 (2) Rates charged for the provision of ambulance services, in accordance
20 with federal law relative to medical reimbursement, including emergency medical
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are additions. HLS 18RS-953 ORIGINAL
HB NO. 408
1 services. If a governing authority adopts a fee schedule setting forth reimbursement
2 rates, that schedule shall be conclusively presumed to be the usual, customary, and
3 reasonable charge in any dispute involving such reimbursement.
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
HB 408 Original 2018 Regular Session Jenkins
Abstract: Provides relative to regulation by local governing authorities of ambulance
services, emergency medical services, and aspects attendant to ambulance operation.
Present law authorizes every local governing authority to protect the public health, safety,
and welfare by licensing, controlling, and regulating privately operated ambulance services,
the furnishing of emergency medical services, and any and all aspects attendant to
ambulance operations within the jurisdiction of the local governing authority.
Present law authorizes local governing authorities to regulate rates charged for ambulance
services, in accordance with federal law relative to medical reimbursement, including
emergency medical services. Proposed law adds provision providing that, if a local
governing authority adopts a fee schedule setting forth reimbursement rates, that schedule
shall be conclusively presumed to be the usual, customary, and reasonable charge in any
dispute involving such reimbursement. Otherwise retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 33:4791.1(B)(2))
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