New Hampshire § 420-J-20 - Section 420-J:20 Definitions.

§ 420-J-20. Section 420-J:20 Definitions.

In this subdivision: [Paragraph I repealed by 2025, 262:2, I, effective January 1, 2028.] I. "Enrolling ground ambulance provider" means a ground ambulance provider who is pursuing in good faith the contracting process for becoming a participating ground ambulance provider with specified health carriers during the period between January 1, 2026, and December 30, 2027, and who has filed with the commissioner a written declaration to that effect on a form provided by the commissioner. II. "Ground ambulance provider" means a public or private organization licensed by the department of safety under RSA 153-A:10 to provide ground ambulance emergency medical services or the transportation of patients upon any public way of the state. III. "Ground ambulance services" means: (a) The rendering of medical treatment and care at the scene of a medical emergency or while transporting a patient from the scene to an appropriate health care facility or behavioral health emergency services provider when the services are provided by one or more ground ambulance vehicles designed for this purpose and licensed by the department of safety under RSA 153-A:10; and (b) Ground ambulance transport between hospitals or behavioral health emergency services providers, hospitals, or behavioral health emergency services providers and other health care facilities or locations, and between health care facilities when the services are medically necessary and are provided by one or more ground ambulance vehicles designed for this purpose and licensed by the department of safety under RSA 153-A:10. IV. "Nonparticipating ground ambulance provider" means a ground ambulance provider that is acting within the scope of practice for ground ambulance providers as set out in RSA 153-A, that does not have a contractual relationship directly or indirectly with a health carrier, and that is not an enrolling ground ambulance provider. V. "Participating ground ambulance provider" means a ground ambulance provider that is a "participating provider" as defined in RSA 420-J:3.