Nonemergency Medical Transportation Program

Types of rides include:

• Public transportation, like the city bus.
• A taxi or van service.
• Commercial transit, like a bus or plane, to go to another city for an appointment.

Services may also include:

• Money for gas.
• Meals and lodging for children and youth 20 and younger staying overnight to get covered health care services.
• Payment for some out-of-state travel to neighboring states (Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico).

Services do not include making arrangements for emergency or nonemergency transportation by ambulance.

To get a ride, you must be enrolled in one of the following programs and not have any other means of transportation

• Medicaid
• Children with Special Health Care Needs
• Transportation for Indigent Cancer Patients

• To request a ride, call at least two workdays before your appointment, or five days before the appointment if it is outside your county. Phones are answered Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. local time.

  You may be able to be approved for same day rides when:

• Your doctor or dentist must see you on the same day.
• You are released from a hospital, clinic, or other health care facility.
• You need a ride to a drugstore.

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