New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
He - Department of Health and Human Services
Subtitle He-W - Former Division of Human Services
Chapter He-W 500 - MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
Part He-W 572 - AMBULANCE SERVICES
Section He-W 572.01 - Definitions

(a) "Acute care hospital" means a hospital that provides short-term medical treatment for patients who have an acute illness or injury, or who are recovering from surgery.

(b) "Advanced life support (ALS) services" means "advanced life support (ALS) " as defined by Saf-C 5901.04, namely, "medical procedures and the scope of practice rendered by advanced emergency medical care providers in accordance with RSA 153-A:12."

(c) "Air ambulance" means a fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft that is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as an air ambulance and which is designed and equipped for the provision of medically necessary supplies and services.

(d) "Ambulance" means any vehicle designed, equipped, and used for the transport of sick or injured individuals and which are licensed to do so in the state in which they operate.

(e) "Basic life support (BLS) services" means "basic life support (BLS) " as defined by Saf-C 5901.09, namely, "fundamental medical procedures and the scope of practice in which emergency medical care providers at the first responder or emergency medical technician-basic levels are trained."

(f) "Department" means the New Hampshire department of health and human services.

(g) "Emergency medical condition" means:

(h) "Medicaid" means the Title XIX and Title XXI programs administered by the department which makes medical assistance available to eligible individuals.

(i) "Prior authorization agent" means an individual or agency contracted by the department responsible for reviewing all scheduled and routine ambulance transportation requests.

(j) "Recipient" means an individual who is eligible for and receiving medical assistance under the medicaid program.

(k) "Scheduled and routine ambulance transportation" means transportation by an ambulance for the purpose of attending an appointment to obtain a medicaid covered service from a medicaid enrolled provider when the use of any other mode of transportation would likely endanger the health and safety of the recipient and when the medicaid covered service is not to treat an emergency medical condition as defined in (g) above.

(l) "Title XIX" means the joint federal-state program described in Title XIX of the Social Security Act and administered in New Hampshire by the department under the medicaid program.

(m) "Title XXI" means the joint federal-state program described in Title XXI of the Social Security Act and administered in New Hampshire by the department under the medicaid program.