The Regulation of Emergency Medical Services – An Overview of Regulation by Focusing on One State’s Model of Control, with an Extra Segment on Case Law Applying How EMS Laws Apply in the Real World to Everyday Citizens.

Learn the general structure of a state EMS agency as three branches of government in itself as created by a state Legislature to implement its regulatory functions.  Review the implementation of those laws versus impermissibly making new law by improperly expanding the law via interpretation and context.  Identify the government authority to regulate the provision of EMS via health care practitioners as first responders. 

Know the practice of EMS and the use of titles whose works are protected by law.  Focus on the specific statutory duties of a state EMS agency.  Consider the exceptions and overlaps for other state health care professionals with EMS law.  Follow how an EMS agency polices the profession (peer-to-peer regulation). 

Understand complaints against providers, investigations, and administrative disciplinary hearings in the world of EMS.  Finally, grasp the administrative structure and organization of Kentucky’s EMS regulatory agency – independent board versus bureau within a larger state agency.

Identify the basis for authority for the regulation of EMS found in both statute and administrative regulations or rules of a state.  Enhance knowledge of the functions of the EMS agency.

While this webinar does not cover the laws in all fifty states with regard to EMS regulation, nor does it cover all the EMS laws in Kentucky, this webinar presentation has examples from Kentucky administrative law that will prompt your serious inquiry into your own state’s regulation of EMS by your own state agency.

The course will conclude with an overview of cases from the Kentucky courts that show how state EMS laws apply to everyday legal disputes and contested cases.

This program offers an objective, thorough review of the state licensure board authority and structure that is fairly unique to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the area of the regulation of EMS and their health care practitioners. This program covers the state agency working in the world of EMS regulation.

Areas Covered in the Session:-

• Legal standards for the regulation of EMS as an independent governing body as three branches of government in one;
• Implementation of state EMS laws versus impermissible rule-making of the new law;
• Government authority to regulate the provision of EMS as health care responders and first-responders;
• The practice and scope of EMS and the use of protected titles;
• Overlap with other state health care laws for other health care practitioners;
• Select case law review of applicable EMS cases as applied to everyday legal disputes.

Why Should You Attend?

State government agencies are tasked with regulating emergency medical services (“EMS”) whose health care practitioners are often known as first-responders.  This government regulation extends to ambulance and rescue services to air ambulance transportation, whose utilization in emergency situations can cost patients tens of thousands of dollars in expenses not covered by health insurance.

State EMS officials and other health care stakeholders will not want to miss this special, 1-hour webinar provided by a health care attorney where you can learn from those with significant background and experience and focus on state licensing of individuals.

Topics in this webinar include the state EMS agency as 3 branches of government in itself; implementation of law versus impermissibly making law; government authority to regulate the practice and the use of titles; statutory duties of a state EMS agency; exceptions and overlaps for other state health care professionals with EMS law; how an EMS agency polices the profession (peer-to-peer regulation); complaints against providers, investigations and administrative disciplinary hearings; administrative structure and organization – independent board versus bureau within a larger state agency.

Dispels the uncertainty and doubt about how the regulation of state EMS is structured.  This includes investigations as conducted by a state government agency and focuses mostly on the regulated entity in a licensure investigation. 

State EMS officials and health care practitioners who are fully informed about these procedures may better defend their actions and work successfully through the investigative process because that is where the most good can be done – averting a disciplinary action and loss of licensure.

This webinar then focuses on the unique models used in state licensure of EMS with a focus on how Kentucky regulates state EMS as health care providers and the transportation vehicles as health care facilities.  Learn in-depth analysis of the structure of a unique model of regulation where most states regulate EMS in a bureaucratic department instead of an independent body of professionals as in Kentucky.

Provide a detailed look at the role and structure of a state EMS agency which follows an administrative agency with jurisdiction over first responders as the licensed health care practitioners where the stakes are high in the life or death world of emergency medical services.

Who Will Benefit?

• Health Care Law Attorneys
• Licensed Health Care Practitioners In Private Practice
• Medical Directors Of Health Facilities
• Office Managers And Medical Directors Of Private Medical Offices
• Health Care Managers And Executives
• Corporate Counsel In Health Care
• Health Care Administrators
• University Faculty In Health Care
• Allied Health Professionals In Graduate-Level Medical Education Across The Many Health Care Professions
• Corporate Compliance Officers
• EMS Officials
• First Responders
• Paramedics