Wash. Admin. Code § 182-546-4100 - Ambulance transportation- Behavioral health treatment-General
The medicaid agency pays for medically necessary ambulance transportation to and from a covered behavioral health service (see WAC 182-546-4300) subject to the conditions and limitations within this chapter. For purposes of Involuntary Treatment Act (ITA) and voluntary behavioral health services:
(1) The agency pays for
transportation services for people involuntarily detained for behavioral health
services when they have been assessed by a DCR and found to be one of the
following:
(a) A danger to self;
(b) A danger to others;
(c) At substantial risk of inflicting
physical harm upon the property of others; or
(d) Gravely disabled as a result of their
behavioral health condition.
(2) The agency pays for ambulance
transportation to take a client to and from an inpatient facility for
behavioral health admission under the ITA.
(3) The agency pays for ambulance
transportation services to take a client to the hospital for a voluntary
inpatient behavioral health stay when medically necessary.
(4) The DCR authorizes the treatment
destination based on the client's legal status.
Notes
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