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PROPOSED EMT-BASIC REGULATIONSOEMS released the proposed regulations that revise EMT-Basic (40 N.J.R. 3869(a)) on July 7, 2008 with comments due by September 5, 2008. The Office of Emergency Medical Services is proposing regulations that address education, training, certification and practice scope for the EMT-Basic. The MTANJ has a group reviewing these regulations with the comments to be posted on the website when completed. Submit your comments to the MTANJ or directly to the Department:
Submit written comments by September 5, 2008 to:
Ruth Charbonneau, Director
Office of Legal and Regulatory Affairs
Office of the Commissioner
New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
PO Box 360
Trenton, NJ 08625-0360
Include Proposal Number: PRN 2008-229.
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OEMS Remote Inspection Site AvailableThe Office of Emergency Medical Services began regularly conducting initial, re-inspection and "Annual" licensed provider inspections on Thursdays at the MCC at Morristown Medical Center located at 100 Madison Ave., Morristown NJ. Providers now have this location as a choice available to them. There will be more information on the OEMS in near future. If you have any questions, contact OEMS at 609-633-7777. Map of Morristown Medical Center with directions to inspection location on site.
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New Jersey Enacts Law Requiring Direct Payment of Non-Network Ambulance Services
Under legislation (A. 439) signed in October 2007, patients covered by a health insurance plan that provides benefits for emergency ambulance services will be able to assign those benefits to the ambulance company. The law takes effect on January 24, 2008 and applies to individual and group health plan policies that are renewed on or after that date. Once the health policies have been renewed to include this new requirement, any insurer that receives a copy of the assignment of benefits accompanied by the ambulance company's claim, will have to pay the claim directly to the ambulance company.
If an insurer receives an assignment of benefits form with the claim, but pays the patient rather than the ambulance service, the claim will be considered unpaid, and subject to late fees and other penalties until the insurer makes the payment directly to the ambulance service.
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