§ 1027.14. Management companies.
(a) Information required to secure approval. Subject to Department approval, an entity may offer management services to EMS agencies. Management services involve exercising operational or managerial control over an EMS agency or conducting the day-to-day operations of the EMS agency. To secure Department approval, the entity shall provide to the Department, on a form or through an electronic process, as prescribed by the Department, the following information and other information as the Department may require:
(1) Its name, including a fictitious name it has registered, its mailing address, and a primary contact person and telephone number at which that person can be reached.
(2) The manner in which the applicant is organized—corporation, partnership, limited liability company, sole proprietorship, and the like.
(3) A description of the management services it offers.
(4) The names, titles and summary of responsibilities of persons who will be staffing the entity as officers, directors or other officials, and the same information pertaining to the entity and to its officers, directors or other officials, that an applicant for an EMS provider is required to report under § 1023.21(b)(1) and (2) (relating to general rights and responsibilities).
(5) A statement attesting to the veracity of the information provided, which shall be signed by the principal official of the entity.
(b) Updating information. An entity approved by the Department to provide management services shall provide the Department on a form or through an electronic process, as prescribed by the Department, any change in the information provided under subsection (a) within 10 days after the change.
(c) Approval. After receipt of the information required under subsection (a), the Department will approve an entity to offer management services to EMS agencies, subject to possible disapproval under § 1031.16 (relating to discipline of management companies).
(d) Registry. The Department will maintain a registry of entities approved by the Department to provide management services to EMS agencies.
(e) Disclosures to EMS agencies. An entity that has received approval from the Department to offer management services to EMS agencies shall provide the same information to an EMS agency that it provides to the Department under subsection (a)(1)—(4) before it contracts with the EMS agency to provide management services for the EMS agency. The entity shall provide the EMS agency with any change in that information within 10 days after the change, except it shall immediately inform the EMS agency of any suspension or revocation of its approval or condition imposed upon it by the Department under § 1031.16.
(f) Effective date. The effective date of this section is October 7, 2014. By October 7, 2014, an entity that is under contract with an EMS agency to provide management services for the EMS agency on October 7, 2014, shall make the same disclosures to the EMS agency as required under subsection (e).
Source The provisions of this § 1027.14 adopted October 11, 2013, effective October 7, 2014, 43 Pa.B. 6093.
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