Definition of Rural Air Ambulance Services

6.4.5 – Definition of Rural Air Ambulance Services (Rev. 102, Issued: 02-01-05, Effective: 01-01-05, Implementation: 02-14-05) For purposes of this section the term “rural air ambulance service” means fixed wing and rotary wing air ambulance service in which the point of pick up of the individual occurs in a rural area (as defined in Section 1886(d)(2)(D)) or in a rural census tract of a metropolitan statistical area (as determined under the most recent modification of the Goldsmith Modification, originally published in the Federal Register on February 27, 1992 (57 Fed. Reg. 6725).