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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))