Policy and Guideline Updates

Greeting Everyone,

Yesterday, Gov Hochul signed some key legislation into law that impacts EMS going forward. The two laws that were signed are:

1. Legislation S.8486-C/A.9102-C Relates to Medicaid Reimbursement for Treatment in Place and Transportation to Alternative Health Care Settings by Ground Ambulance Services (TIP and TAD)
2. Legislation S.6226-A/A.5789-A Provides For Availability of Ambulance Services and Advanced Life Support First Response Services to Store and Distribute Blood and Initiate and Administer Blood Transfusions

While these have made it through the process, please make sure to keep an eye out for further communication. I am confident that the SEMSCO and Division of EMS will be working diligently to provide further guidance on these recent additions.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-hochul-signs-legislation-expand-health-care-access-new-yorkers

Greetings Everyone,

Today, another policy statement was published and is located both in this email and on the DOH website. This policy was created to outline the changes that were made to the new education regulations. Many of you have asked me “what has changed” and since it was such a large change, it has been difficult to outline all of those. So, like the new procedures that have been implemented, such as the “protocol change log”, the DOH has released a “education change log”. Please see either the attached, or it is under the policy page on the DOH as policy 24-08. This makes 3 new policies that have come out over the last 2 days.

http://ubmdems.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/24-08.pdf

Greetings Everyone,

Attached is the link to the NYS Policies page were you will find two (2) new published policies. The first one is:

24-06 Requirements for the Possession and Production of NYS Department of Health Issued EMS Certification (supersedes 12-05)

24-07 Advanced EMS Practitioner Courses Practical Skills Evaluation (supersedes 22-07)

Please check these out so that you are all well informed and up to date.

https://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/ems/policy/policy.htm