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State-level rules that set requirements and standards for Idaho EMS agencies, personnel, educators, educational institutions, and the Time Sensitive Emergency (TSE) system; applies to any person or agency involved in the EMS industry, health care organizations and facilities, Regional TSE Committees, TSE designated Centers, and the TSE Council.
No material clinical or coverage changes in this revision.
Scope, Table of Contents fragments, and referenced rule locations
inv-01: Governance and administrative procedures
Scope and purpose statements establish who is governed and the topics covered.
inv-02: Listed sections (TOC fragment)
Sections listed (by heading) in this fragment:
inv-03: TOC items present in excerpt
Listed sections and subareas relevant to agency licensure and personnel.
inv-04: Referenced rule locations
Locations of substantive rules and waiver processes (to be populated from later document chunks).
inv-06: TOC items present
Listed sections (by title) present in this excerpt:
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Applicability, licensure topics, and waiver/petition references
Applicability and purpose — who is governed
These rules apply to any person or agency involved in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and establish requirements and standards for EMS agencies, EMS personnel, EMS educators, EMS educational institutions, and the Idaho Time Sensitive Emergency (TSE) system of care.
Agency licensure model and service types (TOC)
Table of Contents entries identify the EMS agency licensure model and service types sections: 105. EMS Agency—Licensing Model and 106. EMS Agency — Service Types.
Agency Licensing — TOC entries (no authorization rules in excerpt)
The Table of Contents lists agency licensing headings and subheadings but does not itself set out authorization, prior authorization, denial, documentation, billing, or step-therapy rules in this excerpt; it is an index of section titles only.
TOC — EMS Agency Licensing topics listed
The Table of Contents enumerates EMS agency licensing topics (e.g., Agency License Required; Exemption; Services; Eligibility; Licensing Model; Service Types; Clinical Levels; Specialty Services; Non‑Transport Patient Movement) under Subpart B for agency licensure.
TOC — EMS agency licensure requirements and topics
TOC entries list EMS agency licensure requirements including service types, clinical levels, specialty services, and non‑transport patient movement (e.g., sections 100–110 and 105–108), providing the headings under which substantive licensure requirements appear in the full rule text.
TOC — Agency licensure and personnel sections
The Table of Contents includes entries covering EMS agency licensure, service types, clinical levels, specialty services, non‑transport patient movement, and personnel requirements (noting Subareas B1–B3 for general licensure and personnel).
Waiver petition references in TOC
The TOC references petition and waiver processes for non‑transport and ambulance/air medical agencies (e.g., 'Non‑Transport EMS Agency — Petition For Waiver' and 'Ambulance Or Air Medical EMS Agency — Petition For Waiver') indicating where waiver procedures are located in the full rule.
Response requirements and waivers (TOC entries)
The Table of Contents includes a dedicated subheading for response requirements and waivers and lists specific sections for waivers and petitions (e.g., 160–166 for response requirements and waiver/petition items), identifying where response‑waiver procedures are organized.
- 160. EMS Agency — Response Requirements And Waivers
- 161. Non‑Transport EMS Agency — Waiver Of Response Requirement
- 162. Non‑Transport EMS Agency — Petition For Waiver
- 165–166. Ambulance or Air Medical EMS Agency — Waiver and Petition For Waiver
EMS agency agreements and related TOC entries
Table of Contents entries under Subarea B6 list EMS Agency — Agreements, Plans, And Policies (sections 180–190 range) and related headings such as Ambulance Service Response Agreements, Patient Care Integration, Planned Deployment Agreements, and Air Medical required policies.
- 180. EMS Agency — Agreements, Plans, And Policies
- 181. EMS Agency — Ambulance Service Response Agreements
- 182. EMS Agency — Patient Care Integration
- 184. EMS Agency — Planned Deployment Agreements
- 190. Air Medical EMS Agency — Required Policies
Waiver and petition processes (TOC references)
The Table of Contents explicitly lists waiver and petition processes for waiver of response requirements and petitions for waiver for both non‑transport and ambulance/air medical EMS agencies (see sections 161–166), indicating where providers must look to initiate waivers or petitions.
- 161. Non‑Transport EMS Agency — Waiver Of Response Requirement
- 162. Non‑Transport EMS Agency — Petition For Waiver
- 165. Ambulance Or Air Medical EMS Agency — Waiver Of Response Requirement
- 166. Ambulance Or Air Medical EMS Agency — Petition For Waiver
TOC excerpt — headings only; no authorization rules present
This excerpt of the Table of Contents contains only section headings and indexes; it does not include authorization, prior authorization, denial, documentation, billing, or step‑therapy rules—those would appear in the substantive sections referenced by the TOC.
TOC pages — no prior authorization rules in excerpt
Multiple Table of Contents pages in this excerpt repeat section headings and subareas but do not contain substantive authorization or prior authorization requirements; they function as an index to the full rule where those requirements would be found.
TOC summary — topics indexed (agreements, waivers, inspections, supervision)
The Table of Contents entries shown list the sections that will contain EMS agency requirements, agreements, policies, records, inspections, waivers, and medical supervision; the excerpt is an index and not the substantive rule language.
Definitions, subparts, reserved sections, and TOC metadata
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