Category | Title | Description |
EMS Issue | Letter to Biden-Harris Transition Team | Provides insight into how to advance EMS at the federal level. |
EMS Issue | Letter to EMS Standards Project Team | Provides comment on the final proposed revisions to the national EMS Education Standards. |
Proposed Legislation | Drug Enforcement Administration Department of Justice | Comment on the “Emergency Medical Services Agencies Under the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017” Proposed Rule. |
EMS Funding | Letter to Biden-Harris Transition Team | Requests support for EMS and consistent, adequate funding to continue serving its critical purpose, both in the COVID-19 response and as an integral component of our nation’s healthcare system. |
Pending Legislation | Comments on National Incident Management System Definitions | Comment to FEMA’s National Integration Center on four National Incident Management System (NIMS) resource typing definitions under the emergency medical services core capability: EMR, EMT, EMT-A, and Paramedic. |
EMS Issue | Letter to The National Academies of Sciences Engineering Medicine | Comment on NASEM's draft framework to assist policymakers in planning for equitable allocation of a vaccine against COVID-19. |
EMS Issue | Letter to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Office of EMS | Provides comment on the National 911 Program’s 911DataPath project. NAEMT supports the National 911 Program and feels strongly that adding EMS and healthcare into the mix of represented entities is an important next step in the evolution of the program’s mission and efforts. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to Chair, Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, CMS | Comments on COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. |
EMS Issue | Letter to President, White House | Urges that firefighters and EMS personnel are placed on the highest priority tier for receiving COVID-19 vaccinations when they are available. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to Senate HELP Committee | NAEMT Comments on Senate HELP: Preparing for the Next Pandemic White Paper |
Proposed Legislation | Letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator | Requests the Federal Emergency Management Agency to amend the Authorized Equipment List for FEMA’s preparedness grants to also include ambulances. |
EMS Funding | Letter to U.S. Senate and House Leaders | Requests CMS to reimburse all ground ambulance providers for performing protocol-driven treatments in place (TIP) without transport during the COVID-19 pandemic response. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator | Request for clarification on presumption of COVID-19 patients for CARES Act Provider Relief Fund payments. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator re: CMS-1744-IFC | Requests "Temporary Expansion Sites" rule to allow coverage for Treatment in Place services. |
EMS Funding | Letter to U.S. Senate and House leaders | Requests that EMS agencies receive grant and reimbursement considerations for Covid response, and higher priority access to PPE and COVID-19 testing. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General | Requests that all paramedics and EMTs including those employed by private for-profit EMS agencies are covered by the Public Safety Officers’ Benefit (PSOB) program during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
EMS Funding | Letter to Acting Secretary, Department of Homeland Security | Asks how EMS agencies can access the additional $45 billion in funds providedto FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund included in the CARES Act. |
EMS Funding | Letter to HHS Secretary | Asks how EMS agencies can access the funds provided in the $100 billion Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund included in the CARES Act. |
EMS Funding | Letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator | Requests CMS to waive Medicare regulations for ground ambulance transport to alternate destinations during COVID-19 response. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to U.S. House and Senate Leadership | Requests recognition of the role of EMS in COVID-19 pandemic response; needed funding. |
Pending Legislation | Letter to President, White House | Requests recognition of the role of EMS in COVID-19 pandemic response; needed funding. |
Pending Legislation | VRIPA (S.1210, H.R.1241) | To include a permanent extension of the Volunteer Responder Incentive Protection Act in any legislation to address the 2019 novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). |
EMS Issue | Letter to the EMS Standards Project Team | Requests inclusion of actual standards for EMS—the knowledge, skills and behaviors outlined in the national Scope of Practice Model. |
Pending Legislation | Surprise Billing Act (H.R. 5800) | Expresses concern of national EMS organizations with the ground ambulance services provision contained in Section 5. |
Proposed Legislation | Support of 2016 Truck Size and Weight Limits Study | Opposes any legislation that would increase the legal size or weight limits of trucks because of the serious safety risks inherent in allowing bigger trucks on our nation’s roads and bridges. |
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