ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

 

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HB 2124: hospitals; interfacility transport

Sponsor: Representative Willoughby, LD 13

Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure

Overview

Provides an exemption from the requirement of a certificate of necessity for certain ambulance services.

History

The Department of Health Services (DHS) regulates the operation of ambulances and ambulance services, including regulating the response times of ambulances to meet the needs of the public and to ensure adequate service. Individuals wishing to operate an ambulance service in this state must apply for a certificate of necessity. Upon determining that the public necessity requires the service, or any part of the service proposed by the applicant, DHS issues the certificate provided the applicant is found to be fit and proper to provide the service and has paid and filed the appropriate fees and bonds.

Statute grants an exemption from the requirement to obtain a certificate of necessity for certain vehicles and persons that are statutorily exempted from a certificate of registration as well as ambulance services operating under temporary authority to operate in urgent circumstances (A.R.S. §§ 36-2232, 36-2233).

A certificate of necessity is a certificate that is issued to an ambulance service by DHS and that describes the service area, level of service, type of service, hours of operation, effective date, expiration date, legal name and address of the ambulance service and any limiting or special provisions DHS prescribes (A.R.S. § 36-2201).

Provisions

1.   Exempts ambulance services that are owned or operated by a direct or indirect owner of a hospital for interfacility transports from requiring a certificate of necessity. (Sec. 2)

2.   Specifies that all rules adopted by the Department of Health Services relating to interfacility transportation apply to a direct or indirect owner of a hospital that operates an ambulance service for interfacility transport. (Sec. 2)

3.   Defines direct owner, hospital, indirect owner and interfacility transport. (Sec. 1)

4.   Includes, to the definition of fit and proper, a hospital providing interfacility transport. (Sec. 1)

5.   Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)

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