RÉSUMÉ DIGEST
ACT 565 (SB 414) 2018 Regular Session White
Prior law governed emergency medical services provided by ambulance transport, but does
not specify whether an emergency medical services provider is authorized to transport an
individual to a location other than a hospital emergency department.
New law allows for protocols to be established allowing the transportation to an alternative
destination if an individual's condition does not meet the definition of an emergency medical
condition pursuant to prior law, subject to the following conditions:
(1)No person shall be transported to an alternative destination unless he and the
alternative destination consent to being transported to that destination.
(2)No ambulance service shall transport a person to an alternative destination in which
the ambulance service has a financial interest.
New law requires the La. Department of Health to establish through administrative
rulemaking a reasonable and adequate Medicaid reimbursement methodology for ground
ambulance transfers.
New law provides that a licensed emergency medical services practitioner cannot transport
a person to an alternative destination unless the person consents to being transported to the
destination. Further the practitioner or his employer cannot have a financial interest in the
alternative destination.
Effective August 1, 2018.
(Amends R.S. 40:1131(4); adds R.S. 33:4791.1(A)(6) and (B)(7) and R.S. 40:1131.3 and
1133:14(A)(1)(c))