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Senate Health and Welfare advances private air-ambulance and medical-credentialing bills; both move forward on unanimous roll calls
Summary
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee advanced Senate Bill 138 on private air ambulance services to finance and Senate Bill 174 on medical occupations (adding an additional surgical assistant credentialing body) to the calendar after roll-call votes of 9-0.
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee advanced two bills on unanimous voice/roll-call votes during its meeting. Senator Bailey moved Senate Bill 138, concerning private emergency air medical transport, which the committee sent to Finance. Senator Massey presented Senate Bill 174, which adds the American Board of Surgical Assistants to Tennessee's list of approved credentialing bodies for surgical assistants; the committee sent that bill to the calendar.
Why this matters: SB 138 addresses oversight and payment for emergency air medical transports, which committee members said are driven largely by Medicare and Medicaid cases in rural areas; SB 174 is intended to expand the state’s eligible surgical workforce by recognizing an additional…
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