Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 474 - SOCIAL SERVICES FOR FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND YOUTH › Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. › Section 474-1-016 - TRANSPORTATION AND ESCORT SERVICES FOR FAMILIES

Current through June 17, 2024
This section provides direction for the authorization and provision of
	 Transportation or Escort Services for Families and the process for evaluation
	 and approval of transportation providers, including individual
	 providers.
016.01
TRANSPORTATION DEFINITIONS.
The following definitions
  are used in this section:
16.01(A)
COMMON CARRIER.
Any person who transports passengers
  by motor vehicle for hire and is licensed as such with the Nebraska Public
  Service Commission.
16.01(B)
DEPARTMENT.
The Nebraska Department of Health and
  Human Services.
16.01(C)
ESCORT SERVICES.
An attendant or caregiver
  accompanying a minor or persons who are physically, mentally, or
  developmentally disabled and unable to travel or wait without assistance or
  supervision.
16.01(D)
EXEMPT PROVIDER.
Carriers exempt from the Public
  Service Commission licensure by law including those that
(i) Transport for hire persons who are aged
  and their spouses and dependents under a contract with a municipality or county
  ;
(ii) Are owned and operated by a
  nonprofit organization which has been exempted from the payment of federal
  income taxes as provided by the Internal Revenue Code and transporting solely
  those persons over age 60, their spouses and dependents or disabled persons
  ;
(iii) Are operated by a
  municipality or county as authorized by law in the transportation of the
  persons who are aged ;
(iv) Are
  operated by a governmental subdivision or a qualified public purpose
  organization having motor vehicles with a seating capacity of 20 or less and
  are engaged in the transportation of passengers in the state;
(v) Are engaged in the transportation of
  passengers and are operated by a transit authority created under and acting
  pursuant to the laws of the State of Nebraska; and
(vi) Provide escort service under contract
  with the Department or with any agency organized under the Nebraska Community
  Aging Services Act .
016.01(E)
INDIVIDUAL
  PROVIDER.
A person who is not in the business of providing
  transportation for hire; for example, a friend, neighbor or non-legally
  responsible relative.
016.01(F)
MEDICAL ESCORT.
An attendant or caregiver accompanying
  a minor or persons who are physically, mentally, or developmentally disabled
  and unable to travel or wait without assistance or supervision to receive a
  Nebraska Medicaid covered service.
016.01(G)
NEBRASKA MEDICAID
  COVERED SERVICE.
A medical service that could be covered by a
  Nebraska Medical Assistance Program as specified in Title 471 of the Nebraska
  Administrative Code.
016.01(H)
PUBLIC, CONTRACTED TRANSPORTATION.
Public
  transportation such as a taxi, bus, train or plane.
016.01(I)
TARIFF.
The geographic rate parameters of operation assigned to a particular carrier by
  the Public Service Commission.
016.01(J)
TRANSPORTATION OR
  ESCORT SERVICE FOR FAMILIES.
Means services enabling:
(i) Children to travel to:
(1) Child care;
(2) Health-related treatment or care when
  Medicaid does not cover the transportation service; or
(3) Department or other community resource
  services as a part of a child protective services safety plan or case
  plan;
(ii) Parents or
  usual caregivers to travel to:
(1) Health
  services when not covered by Medicaid;
(2) Department or a community resource to
  receive services as a part of a child protective services safety plan or case
  plan; or
(3) Visit a hospitalized
  child included in the family unit or in foster care when Medicaid does not
  cover the transportation; and
(iii) Biological parents or usual caregivers
  with children in foster care to receive services directed toward returning the
  child home.