048-15 Wyo. Code R. §§ 15-8 - Excluded Services

The following are not covered services:

(a) Transportation to receive services that are not covered services;

(b) No-load trips and unloaded mileage (when no patient is aboard the ambulance), including transportation of life-support equipment in response to an emergency call;

(c) Transportation of a client who is pronounced dead before an ambulance is called or after the ambulance is called but before transport;

(d) Transportation of a family member or friend to visit a client or consult with the client's physician or other provider of medical services;

(e) Transportation to pick up pharmaceuticals;

(f) A client's return home when ambulance transportation is not medically necessary, including a client's return back to a nursing facility;

(g) Transportation of a resident of a nursing facility to receive services that are available at the nursing facility;

(h) Air ambulance services to transport a client from a hospital capable of treating the client to another hospital at the request of the client or family;

(i) Transportation of a client in response to detention ordered by a court or law enforcement agency;

(j) Transportation based on a physician's standing orders;

(k) Stand-by time;

(l) Special attendants;

(m) Specialty Care Transport (SCT);

(n) Paramedic Intercept (PI);

(o) When a client can be transported by a mode other than ambulance without endangering the client's health, regardless of whether other transportation is available; and

(p) Any other service not included in Section 7 of this Chapter.

Notes

048-15 Wyo. Code R. §§ 15-8

Amended, Eff. 2/8/2017. Amended, Eff. 5/14/2018.