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House Bill No. 5506

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including mileage, for each day a family support referee is so engaged. Sec. 135. (NEW) (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Public Health shall proportionately adjust the rates for the conveyance and treatment of patients by licensed ambulance services and invalid coaches and the rates for certified ambulance services and paramedic intercept services established pursuant to subparagraph (A) of subdivision (9) of section 19a-177 of the general statutes in accordance with any increases made by the Commissioner of Social Services to the Medicaid emergency and nonemergency ambulance service rates established pursuant to section 17b-273 of the general statutes, not later than thirty days after the Commissioner of Social Services makes such increases. Sec. 136. (Effective July 1, 2022) (a) The Commissioner of Public Health, in collaboration with the Commissioner of Social Services, shall establish a working group on emergency medical services. The working group shall include, but need not be limited to, the commissioners or their designees, representatives of volunteer emergency medical services providers, representatives of municipal or other nonprofit agencies that provide emergency medical services, representatives of hospital-based emergency medical services providers and representatives of for-profit emergency medical services providers. The working group may also include representatives of hospitals, emergency physicians, representatives of long-term care providers, representatives of health carriers and other emergency care providers. (b) The Commissioner of Public Health shall convene the first meeting of the working group not later than September 1, 2022. (c) The working group shall examine the following issues: (1) Medicaid and private commercial emergency medical services rates; (2) the emergency medical services workforce; and (3) the provision of emergency medical services, including, but not limited to, the adoption