WAC 182-546-4100. Ambulance transportation — Behavioral health treatment — General

The medicaid agency pays for medically necessary ambulance transportation to and from a covered behavioral health service (see WAC 182-546-4300 ) subject to the conditions and limitations within this chapter. For purposes of Involuntary Treatment Act (ITA) and voluntary behavioral health services: (1) The agency pays for transportation services for people involuntarily detained for behavioral health services when they have been assessed by a DCR and found to be one of the following: (a) A danger to self; (b) A danger to others; (c) At substantial risk of inflicting physical harm upon the property of others; or (d) Gravely disabled as a result of their behavioral health condition. (2) The agency pays for ambulance transportation to take a client to and from an inpatient facility for behavioral health admission under the ITA. (3) The agency pays for ambulance transportation services to take a client to the hospital for a voluntary inpatient behavioral health stay when medically necessary. (4) The DCR authorizes the treatment destination based on the client's legal status.