RE: CAMTS

["Paul M. Wright, Jr." <pmwright@home.com>]

I believe most states would like nothing more than to be able to 
off-load the approval process for air medical programs to a 
third-party accreditation agency such as CAMTS.  However, it's 
seldom a clean process for a couple of reasons and I've heard 
both anti-trust and Federal pre-emption issues raised as well 
as restraint of trade as reasons why it might not work well.

In one scenario in which I was involved, the original intent was 
to require CAMTS accreditation but that was later diluted to a 
requirement that programs be able to show evidence of intent to become 
CAMTS accredited.  Based, of course, on protests by non-accredited 
programs.

The first part of your question is whether states are moving in this 
direction and my impression is that some are.  The larger question is 
whether such a requirement can withstand a legal challenge and on 
that I have no data to suggest one way or another other than the case 
I mentioned above.


paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dc21236@aol.com [mailto:Dc21236@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 06:34
> To: flightmed@flightweb.com
> Subject: Re: CAMTS
> 
> 
> I have another question regarding CAMTS. The great state in 
> which I live 
> currently has no written regs regarding air transport at all. 
> The current 
> plan is to have CAMTS certification as a min. standard to 
> operate in our 
> state. The beaurocrats with whom we have to deal with say 
> this is becoming a 
> standard in states around the nation. Does anyone know of any 
> states which 
> say that all (fixed and rotor) programs must be CAMTS certified? 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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