TRANSPORTATION STANDARDS

The executive commissioner by rule shall establish minimum standards for transportation services as required under Section 248A.101(b)(9). In adopting rules under this section, the executive commissioner: (1) shall authorize a center to determine: (A) in coordination with a minor client's parent, guardian, or other legally authorized representative, the schedule of transportation services; and (B) in coordination with the client's prescribing physician, the necessary type of provider who must be present during transportation; (2) shall permit a minor client's parent, guardian, or other legally authorized representative to decline a center's transportation services entirely or only on a specific date; and (3) may not: (A) require a plan of care or physician's order to document a client's need for transportation services to access a center's services; or (B) consider transportation services as nursing services included in a client's plan of care.