AB 1932 Summary

• Authorizes the Department of Health Care Services to establish service levels for determining billing codes for emergency and nonemergency ambulance transportation services under Medi-Cal

• Specifies six service levels: Advanced Life Support Nonemergency, Advanced Life Support Emergency Level 1, Basic Life Support Nonemergency, Basic Life Support Emergency, Advanced Life Support Level 2, and Specialty Care Transport

• Requires the department to adopt by June 30, 2011 the definitions and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System codes for these service levels as established by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

• Mandates that any billing codes determined using these service levels must be established in a revenue-neutral manner