NOTICE TO AGENCIES SEEKING FUNDING FOR EMS COURSE TUITION

The following statement is made in the DOH Application Packet for Agency Code Number:

  • Having an EMS Agency Code # issued to your agency may not entitle your service for training expenditures reimbursement, special funding or eligibility into a Pilot Program.

STUDENT ELIGIBILITY

  1. Basic Life Support (BLS) Course reimbursement may only be requested and received for the tuition costs of eligible students. Course sponsors may receive reimbursement for those students that are members or employees of a volunteer agency, employees of a municipal emergency medical service, commercial service, hospital-based service or a Basic Life Support (BLS) First Response Service, which is recognized by DOH as providing EMS and has an assigned EMS agency code. Employees of Fire Department of New York (FDNY) are eligible for course reimbursement at reduced rates.
  2. Advanced Life Support (ALS) course reimbursement is available for eligible students who are members or employees of ALS volunteer ambulances or ALS First Response Services, municipal services, or commercial and hospital-based services. Employees of Fire Department of New York (FDNY) are eligible for course reimbursement at reduced rates.
  3. Students who are members of a private/corporate/industrial EMS service that does not routinely provide EMS in the public sector as a primary response (i.e., corporate property response teams and specialty teams and brigades that do not have municipal recognition and a primary EMS role) are ineligible for state tuition reimbursement.
  4. Students who are members of a state or federal agency EMS system are ineligible for state tuition reimbursement.

To clarify this policy, agencies applying for a DOH EMS Agency Code Number should note that course tuition reimbursement will not be paid:

  • For students that are not members/employees of an entity that has a valid DOH issued EMS Agency Code number at the time of enrollment in the course.
  • To ALS course enrollees if their membership is with a BLS service.