Bill Text: MS HB1034 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Ambulance provider; must be allowed to transport patient back to health care facility that originally treated the patient.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2011-02-01 - Died In Committee [HB1034 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2011-HB1034-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2011 Regular Session
To: Public Health and Human Services
By: Representative Holland
House Bill 1034
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT AN AMBULANCE PROVIDER MUST BE ALLOWED TO TRANSPORT A PATIENT FROM THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY TO WHICH THE PATIENT WAS TRANSFERRED IN ANOTHER COUNTY BACK TO THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY THAT ORIGINALLY TREATED THE PATIENT, OR AN AMBULANCE PROVIDER IN THE COUNTY TO WHICH THE PATIENT WAS TRANSPORTED MUST TRANSPORT THE PATIENT TO THE HEALTH CARE FACILITY WHERE THE PATIENT WAS ORIGINALLY TREATED, AT THE SAME COST AS THE AMBULANCE PROVIDER IN THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE PATIENT WAS ORIGINALLY TREATED; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) If a health care facility that originally treated a patient requests an ambulance provider to travel to the health care facility to which the patient was transferred in another county, for the purpose of transporting the patient from that health care facility back to the health care facility that originally treated the patient, the transportation of the patient must be made in accordance with the following:
(a) The ambulance provider must be allowed to transport the patient back to the health care facility that originally treated the patient as requested; or
(b) An ambulance provider in the county to which the patient was transported must transport the patient to the health care facility where the patient was originally treated, at a cost that is no higher than would have been charged by the ambulance provider in the county in which the patient was originally treated.
(2) The provisions of this section shall supersede any county or municipal ordinance to the extent of any conflict between this section and the ordinance.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2011.
