Pennsylvania Code › Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY › Part VII - Emergency Medical Services › Subpart A - EMS System › Chapter 1023 - PERSONNEL › Subchapter B - EMS PROVIDERS AND VEHICLE OPERATORS › Section 1023.21 - General rights and responsibilities

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
Change of address.
An EMS provider, an EMSVO and an applicant
					 for EMS provider or EMSVO certification shall ensure that the Department has a
					 current address at which the person can be reached by mail. This applies to an
					 EMS provider and an EMSVO whether or not that person maintains current
					 registration of the EMS provider or EMSVO certification.
(b)
Reports of criminal convictions,
					 discipline and exclusions.
(1) An
					 applicant for EMS provider or EMSVO certification shall report to the
					 Department, on a form or through an electronic process, as prescribed by the
					 Department, misdemeanor, felony and other criminal convictions that are not
					 summary or equivalent offenses and disciplinary sanctions that have been
					 imposed upon a license, certification or other authorization of the applicant
					 to practice an occupation or profession. An applicant for an EMSVO
					 certification shall also report to the Department any other conviction of an
					 offense involving reckless driving or driving under the influence of alcohol or
					 drugs. An applicant for an EMSVO certification shall also report to the
					 Department a driver's license suspension due to the use of drugs or alcohol or
					 from a moving traffic violation. The applicant shall also arrange for the
					 custodian of the criminal charging, judgment and sentencing document for each
					 conviction and the custodian of an adjudication or other document imposing
					 discipline against the applicant to provide the Department with a certified
					 copy of those records. If the applicant has not been sentenced on a criminal
					 conviction at the time of making application for certification, the applicant
					 shall inform the Department and then arrange, within 5 days after the applicant
					 is sentenced, for the custodian of the sentencing document to provide the
					 Department with a certified copy of that document. If, after making application
					 for EMS provider certification, but before the Department acts upon an
					 application, the applicant is convicted of a reportable offense or has
					 discipline imposed upon a license, certification or other authorization to
					 practice an occupation or profession, the applicant shall report that
					 information to the Department immediately in the manner prescribed in the
					 application form.
(2) An applicant
					 for EMS provider certification shall report to the Department, on a form or
					 through an electronic process, as prescribed by the Department, an exclusion
					 from a Federal or State health care program of the applicant, or of an entity
					 in which the applicant had equity or capital, stock or profits equal to at
					 least 5% of the value of the property or assets of the entity at the time of
					 the exclusion. The applicant shall also provide the Department with a certified
					 copy of the document by which the applicant is excluded from the health care
					 program. A health care program is a program in which the State or Federal
					 government serves as a payor for health care services, such as the Medicare and
					 Medicaid programs. If, after making application for EMS provider certification,
					 but before the Department acts upon an application, there is an exclusion from
					 a Federal or State health care program that is reportable under this paragraph,
					 the applicant shall report that information to the Department immediately in
					 the manner prescribed in the application form.
(3) The Department will not act upon an
					 application for certification that reports information under paragraph (1) or
					 (2) until it receives a certified copy of each document that is required to be
					 provided under those paragraphs, unless the applicant establishes that the
					 document from which a certified copy would be made does not exist.
(4) An EMS provider and an EMSVO shall report
					 the same type of information and arrange for the same documents to be provided
					 to the Department, as required under paragraphs (1) and (2), within 30 days
					 after each conviction, discipline and exclusion. This applies to an EMS
					 provider and an EMSVO whether or not the person maintains current registration
					 of the EMS provider's or EMSVO's certification.