Indiana Administrative Code
Title 836 - INDIANA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES COMMISSION
Article 2 - ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT
Rule 7.2 - Requirements and Standards for Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate Provider Organizations
Section 7.2-1 - General requirements for emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organizations
Current through March 20, 2024
Authority: IC 16-31-2-7; IC 16-31-3-14; IC 16-31-3-14.5; IC 16-31-3-20
Affected: IC 4-21.5; IC 16-31-3; IC 16-41-10
Sec. 1.
(a) A person shall not:
emergency medical services as an emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization unless the person is certified as an emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization.
(b) If the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization also provides transportation of emergency patients, the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall be certified as an ambulance service provider organization in accordance with the requirements specified in 836 IAC 1 under IC 16-31. The emergency medical technician-intermediate nontransport provider organizations shall meet the requirements specified in 836 IAC 1-1-4 through 836 IAC 1-1-8.
(c) The emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall ensure the following:
(d) The chief executive officer of each emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall certify that the provider organization has an agreement, or interdepartmental memo if hospital based, with one (1) or more supervising hospitals for the following services:
The agreement or interdepartmental memo shall include a detailed description of how such services shall be provided to the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization. In those cases where more than one (1) hospital enters into an agreement, or seeks to enter into an agreement, with an emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization as a supervising hospital, the interhospital agreement shall clearly define the specific duties and responsibilities of each hospital to ensure medical and administrative accountability of system operation.
(e) The emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall have a medical director provided by the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization or jointly with the supervising hospital. The medical director is responsible for providing competent medical direction as established by the medical control committee. Upon establishment of a medical control policy, the medical director and chief executive officer of the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization have the duty to enact the policy within the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization and accordingly enforce the policy. The duties and responsibilities of the medical director include, but are not limited to, the following:
are available to the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization.
in regards to communicable disease testing under IC 16-41-10.
(f) The emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall do the following:
(g) An emergency medical technician-intermediate ambulance service provider organization must be able to provide an emergency medical technician-intermediate level response. For the purpose of this subsection, "emergency medical technician-intermediate response" consists of the following:
(h) For an emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization, when an advanced life support nontransport vehicle is dispatched emergency medical technician-intermediate response, it shall, at a minimum, be staffed by an emergency medical technician-intermediate.
(i) The emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall do the following:
(j) All ambulances and nontransport vehicles used by the emergency medical technician-intermediate provider organization shall meet the insurance requirements under 836 IAC 1-3-6.