Gas/Personnel Reimbursement: (available with select clients) The member is eligible for reimbursement for the cost of their transportation to and from covered medical services by friends or other individuals when transport is prior approved and the client has no other means of transportation or personal resources to use his or her own vehicle.
Public Transit: (available with select clients)The member lives within ½ mile (about 4-6 blocks) of a bus stop, the medical facility is within ½ mile (about 4-6 blocks) of the bus stop, the member can walk ½ mile (about 4-6 blocks) and understands common signs and directions.
Ambulatory: The member can walk to the vehicle and from the vehicle to their destination unassisted, but cannot utilize the bus.
Wheelchair: The member is a wheelchair user, requires lift-equipped or roll-up wheelchair vehicle and driver assistance. The member must have their own wheelchair or notify LogistiCare of the need for one.
Gurney: Member can transfer to the stretcher with little or minimum assistance, cannot sit in a wheelchair, and does not require any medical attention/monitoring during transport. Patients on oxygen can be transported but the oxygen has to be self-administered/monitored by the patient or applied/dc’d by medical personal at the sending and receiving ends of the transport.>
BLS Ambulance*: The member is confined to bed, cannot sit in a wheelchair, and/or requires medical attention/monitoring during transport for reasons such as isolation precautions at the receiving end, oxygen not self-administered by patient, sedated patient.
SCT/ALS Ambulance*: The member is confined to bed, cannot sit in a wheelchair, and/or requires medical attention/monitoring during transport for reasons such as IV requiring monitoring, cardiac monitoring, and tracheotomy.
*Note – the type of an ambulance to be responded may vary by geographic location based on local EMS protocols.