Sec. 21542.
(1) If a hospital has the infrastructure necessary to allow an aircraft transport vehicle or ambulance that is a rotary aircraft to land at the hospital, the hospital shall grant the right to land at the hospital to an aircraft transport vehicle or ambulance that is a rotary aircraft, that is a participating provider with a patient's health benefit plan. If a hospital denies an aircraft transport vehicle or ambulance that is a rotary aircraft the right to land at the hospital, the hospital shall, within 10 days after the denial, provide to the person designated in the patient's health benefit plan written documentation explaining the reason for the denial. A hospital shall not deny an aircraft transport vehicle or ambulance that is a rotary aircraft the right to land at the hospital for the purpose of allowing an aircraft transport vehicle that is a contracted provider with the hospital or ambulance that is a rotary aircraft that is a contracted provider with the hospital to remain on standby.
(2) In addition to the sanctions set forth in section 20165, a hospital that violates this section is liable to the aircraft transport operation or ambulance operation for the cost of transporting the patient by that operation's aircraft transport vehicle or ambulance that is a rotary aircraft to the extent that the cost exceeds the amount covered by the patient's health benefit plan.
History: Add. 2018, Act 385, Eff. Mar. 19, 2019
Popular Name: Act 368