REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS

The proposed arrangement between a non-profit hospital and a for-profit emergency medical services transport services provider that serves a 17-county area in a prominently rural area of an anonymous state is the subject of a new OIG ruling. On July 3, 2003, the OIG posted Advisory Opinion No. 03-14, which involved a request concerning emergency helicopter transports of trauma patients. The unidentified state's Department of Transportation had concluded there was a real need for such emergency transport services because of higher mortality rates involved in transporting patients in this part of the state to appropriately equipped emergency rooms. Under the arrangement, the ambulance provider would buy, operate, staff, and maintain a helicopter that is equipped with a mobile intensive care unit to transport trauma victims, while the hospital would provide a landing pad next to the facility, and modest crew quarters and services for the helicopter ' which would be available to any ambulance company that brings or receives a patient to or from the facility. Moreover, emergency calls to 911 in the area are routed, based on pre-determined criteria, to a predetermined hospital, based on the patient's needs.

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REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS

The proposed arrangement between a non-profit hospital and a for-profit emergency medical services transport services provider that serves a 17-county area in a prominently rural area of an anonymous state is the subject of a new OIG ruling.

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