Budget Amendment ID: FY2017-S4-483

EHS 483

Mobile Integrated Health Technical Change

Mr. Donnelly, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Brady and Moore and Ms. L'Italien moved that the proposed new text be amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:-

"SECTION XX.  Section 2 of chapter 111C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2014 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following clause:-

(16) provide for mobile integrated health programs that are also the primary ambulance service for a jurisdiction to avert emergency calls for EMS from emergency departments when care is more appropriate in a non-emergency department setting, provided, however, that: i) the care occurs with qualified medical direction; ii) the mobile integrated health program shall be approved by the department pursuant to chapter 111O; iii) patients averted shall be participants in the mobile integrated health program that is averting the emergency department; and, iv) each mobile integrated health program’s emergency department aversion protocols are approved by the department.