SB2300 - Illinois: Ambulance, Counties, Fee, Medicaid, Transport

PUBLIC AID-AMBULANCE SERVICE Amends the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides a guideline for Medicaid reimbursement for ambulance services for emergency ambulance services, non-emergency ambulance services, mileage, advanced life support services, and specialty care transport services. Provides that the requirement for payment of ground ambulance services by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services is met if the services are provided pursuant to a request for evaluation, treatment, and transport for an individual with a condition of such a nature that a prudent layperson would have reasonably expected that a delay in seeking immediate medical attention would have been hazardous to life or health. Requires the Department to annually update the ambulance fee schedule rates on July 1 of each year. Senate Committee Amendment No. 1 Provides that the ambulance services for which reimbursement is required under the medical assistance Article of the Illinois [...]

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