---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 300gg–135"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "300gg–135"
heading: "Air ambulance services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/300gg-135"
units:
  - "Chapter 6A — Public Health Service"
  - "Subchapter XXV — Requirements Relating to Health Insurance Coverage"
  - "Part E — Health Care Provider Requirements"
---

# §300gg–135. Air ambulance services


In the case of a [participant](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-11), [beneficiary](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-2), or enrollee with benefits under a [group health plan](/usc/42/300bb–8.md?p=1) or group or [individual health insurance coverage](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=b-5) offered by a [health insurance issuer](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=b-2) and who is furnished in a plan year beginning on or after January 1, 2022, air ambulance [services](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) (for which benefits are available under such plan or coverage) from a nonparticipating [provider](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) (as defined in [section 300gg–111(a)(3)(G) of this title](/usc/42/300gg–111.md?p=a-3-G)) with respect to such plan or coverage, such [provider](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) shall not bill, and shall not hold liable, such [participant](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-11), [beneficiary](/usc/42/300gg–91.md?p=d-2), or enrollee for a payment amount for such [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) furnished by such [provider](/usc/42/299b–21.md?p=8) that is more than the cost-sharing amount for such [service](/usc/42/201.md?p=a) (as determined in accordance with paragraphs (1) and (2) of [section 300gg–112(a) of this title](/usc/42/300gg–112.md?p=a), [section 1185f(a) of title 29](/usc/29/1185f.md?p=a), or [section 9817(a) of title 26](/usc/26/9817.md?p=a), as applicable).


## Source credit

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, § 2799B–5, as added Pub. L. 116–260, div. BB, title I, § 105(b), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2851.)