Subchapter C. MISCELLANEOUS
Sec.
1027.51. Stretcher and wheelchair vehicles.
1027.52. Out-of-State providers.§ 1027.51. Stretcher and wheelchair vehicles.
(a) Stretcher vehicle. A stretcher vehicle is a ground vehicle, other than an ambulance, that is commercially used to transport by stretcher a person who does not receive and cannot reasonably be anticipated to require medical assessment, monitoring, treatment or observation by EMS providers during transport, but who, due to the person’s condition, requires vehicle transportation on a stretcher or in a wheelchair.
(b) Wheelchair vehicle. A wheelchair vehicle is a ground vehicle, other than an ambulance, that is commercially used to transport by wheelchair a person who does not receive and cannot reasonably be anticipated to require medical assessment, monitoring, treatment or observation by EMS providers during transport, but who, due to the person’s condition, requires vehicle transportation on a stretcher or in a wheelchair.
(c) Prohibition. An entity may not operate a stretcher or wheelchair vehicle to transport a person who the entity knows or should reasonably know requires medical assessment, monitoring, treatment or observation during transport.
§ 1027.52. Out-of-State providers.
(a) An entity located or headquartered outside of this Commonwealth, that is not licensed as an EMS agency by the Department, may not engage in the business of providing EMS to patients within this Commonwealth except when dispatched by a PSAP to provide EMS. This is to occur only when a PSAP determines that an EMS agency is unable to respond within a reasonable time or its response is not sufficient to deal with the emergency.
(b) An entity located or headquartered outside of this Commonwealth that is not licensed as an EMS agency by the Department, may provide EMS to patients when transporting them from locations outside this Commonwealth to locations within this Commonwealth.
(c) An entity located or headquartered outside this Commonwealth, which is not an agency of the Federal government, needs to be licensed as an EMS agency by the Department to provide EMS to patients within this Commonwealth other than as described in subsections (a) and (b).
Source The provisions of this § 1027.52 adopted October 11, 2013, effective April 10, 2014, 43 Pa.B. 6093.
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