---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 460.76"
title: "42"
number: "460.76"
heading: "Transportation services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/460.76"
---

# §460.76. Transportation services.

- (a) **Safety, accessibility, and equipment.** A PACE organization's transportation services must be safe, accessible, and equipped to meet the needs of the participant population.
- (b) **Maintenance of vehicles.**
  - (1) If the PACE organization owns, rents, or leases transportation vehicles, it must maintain these vehicles in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations.
  - (2) If a contractor provides transportation services, the PACE organization must ensure that the vehicles are maintained in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations.
- (c) **Communication with PACE center.** The PACE organization must ensure that transportation vehicles are equipped to communicate with the PACE center.
- (d) **Training.** The PACE organization must train all transportation personnel (employees and contractors) in the following:
  - (1) **Managing the special needs of participants.**
  - (2) **Handling emergency situations.**
- (e) **Changes in care plan.** As part of the interdisciplinary team process, PACE organization staff (employees and contractors) must communicate relevant changes in a participant's care plan to transportation personnel.

## Notes

### Amendments

[64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999, as amended at 71 FR 71334, Dec. 8, 2006]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302, 1395, 1395eee(f), and 1396u-4(f).

### Source

Source: 64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[64 FR 66279, Nov. 24, 1999, as amended at 71 FR 71334, Dec. 8, 2006]